Dr. Dobb's Python-URL! - weekly Python news and links (May 3)

Tue May 3 12:08:03 EDT 2005

QOTW: "The security 'droids have decided that since the MS Office Suite is a
'standard' application then software written in MS Office VBA must be 'safe.'
Any other development environments (such as Java, Perl, Cygwin) are 'unsafe'
and can't be installed." - Peter Olsen

"There's nothing wrong with open source projects catering to a market, and
there's nothing wrong with running open source software on a proprietary
operating system." - Steve Holden

    Efficiently running a regex over a large file:
        http://groups-beta.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/browse_thread/thread/6a91f75b5bef1d0d

    Readable switch construction without lambdas or dictionaries:
        http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/Cookbook/Python/Recipe/410692

    Lexical Analysis, Python-style:
        http://jason.diamond.name/weblog/2005/04/26/lexical-analysis-python-style

    What happened at Python UK:
        http://groups-beta.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/browse_thread/thread/72446ebe0271f3cf
        http://www.reportlab.org/~andy/accu2005/accu2005.html

    Europython 2005:
        http://groups-beta.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/browse_thread/thread/3ac8419954f9094a

    PyCon Brasil is a success!
        http://www.livejournal.com/users/gniemeyer/

    Using the logging module:
        http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/Cookbook/Python/Recipe/412552

    Sparklines in data: URIs:
        http://bitworking.org/news/Sparklines_in_data_URIs_in_Python

    Static typing is a sleeping policeman:
        http://www.itworld.com/AppDev/nls_ebiznaked050426/

    Got some free time? The Python Challenge will fix that:
        http://groups-beta.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/browse_thread/thread/7a755219ea1a5cec

    Let Python be Python:
        http://www.unixreview.com/documents/s=9700/ur0504k/

    Yet another Python code sharing site:
        http://www.pycode.com/

    Notable releases:
        ID3Writer
            http://www.comfortableshoe.co.uk/cgi-bin/blosxom.cgi/Home/Python/id3Writer.comments
        Snakelets 1.40
            http://snakelets.sourceforge.net/
        Roundup 0.8.3
            http://roundup.sourceforge.net/
        wxPython 2.6.0.0
            http://wxpython.org/
        PyDev 0.9.3
            http://pydev.sourceforge.net/
        PythonCAD 24
            http://www.pythoncad.org/

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Everything Python-related you want is probably one or two clicks away in
these pages:

    Python.org's Python Language Website is the traditional
    center of Pythonia
        http://www.python.org
    Notice especially the master FAQ
        http://www.python.org/doc/FAQ.html

    PythonWare complements the digest you're reading with the
    marvelous daily python url
         http://www.pythonware.com/daily  
    Mygale is a news-gathering webcrawler that specializes in (new)
    World-Wide Web articles related to Python.
         http://www.awaretek.com/nowak/mygale.html 
    While cosmetically similar, Mygale and the Daily Python-URL
    are utterly different in their technologies and generally in
    their results.

    For far, FAR more Python reading than any one mind should
    absorb, much of it quite interesting, several pages index
    much of the universe of Pybloggers.
	http://lowlife.jp/cgi-bin/moin.cgi/PythonProgrammersWeblog
        http://www.planetpython.org/
        http://mechanicalcat.net/pyblagg.html

    comp.lang.python.announce announces new Python software.  Be
    sure to scan this newsgroup weekly.
        http://groups.google.com/groups?oi=djq&as_ugroup=comp.lang.python.announce

    Steve Bethard, Tim Lesher, and Tony Meyer continue the marvelous
    tradition early borne by Andrew Kuchling, Michael Hudson and Brett
    Cannon of intelligently summarizing action on the python-dev mailing
    list once every other week.
	http://www.python.org/dev/summary/

    The Python Package Index catalogues packages.
        http://www.python.org/pypi/

    The somewhat older Vaults of Parnassus ambitiously collects references
    to all sorts of Python resources.
        http://www.vex.net/~x/parnassus/   

    Much of Python's real work takes place on Special-Interest Group
    mailing lists
        http://www.python.org/sigs/

    The Python Business Forum "further[s] the interests of companies
    that base their business on ... Python."
	http://www.python-in-business.org

    Python Success Stories--from air-traffic control to on-line
    match-making--can inspire you or decision-makers to whom you're
    subject with a vision of what the language makes practical.
        http://www.pythonology.com/success

    The Python Software Foundation (PSF) has replaced the Python
    Consortium as an independent nexus of activity.  It has official
    responsibility for Python's development and maintenance. 
        http://www.python.org/psf/
    Among the ways you can support PSF is with a donation.
        http://www.python.org/psf/donate.html

    Kurt B. Kaiser publishes a weekly report on faults and patches.
        http://www.google.com/groups?as_usubject=weekly%20python%20patch

    Cetus collects Python hyperlinks.
        http://www.cetus-links.org/oo_python.html

    Python FAQTS
        http://python.faqts.com/

    The Cookbook is a collaborative effort to capture useful and
    interesting recipes.
	http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/Cookbook/Python

    Among several Python-oriented RSS/RDF feeds available are
	http://www.python.org/channews.rdf
	http://bootleg-rss.g-blog.net/pythonware_com_daily.pcgi
	http://python.de/backend.php
    For more, see
	http://www.syndic8.com/feedlist.php?ShowMatch=python&ShowStatus=all
    The old Python "To-Do List" now lives principally in a
    SourceForge reincarnation.
        http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?atid=355470&group_id=5470&func=browse
        http://python.sourceforge.net/peps/pep-0042.html

    The online Python Journal is posted at pythonjournal.cognizor.com.
    editor at pythonjournal.com and editor at pythonjournal.cognizor.com
    welcome submission of material that helps people's understanding
    of Python use, and offer Web presentation of your work.

    del.icio.us presents an intriguing approach to reference commentary.
    It already aggregates quite a bit of Python intelligence.
        http://del.icio.us/tag/python

    *Py: the Journal of the Python Language*
        http://www.pyzine.com

    Archive probing tricks of the trade:
        http://groups.google.com/groups?oi=djq&as_ugroup=comp.lang.python&num=100
        http://groups.google.com/groups?meta=site%3Dgroups%26group%3Dcomp.lang.python.*

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