Dr. Dobb's Python-URL! - weekly Python news and links (May 24)

Tue May 24 11:19:29 EDT 2005

QOTW: "If you're sick of answering newbie questions, and don't think you
can do so politely, for the sake of the community, DON'T!  You're not that
necessary." - Joal Heagney

"Who controls the runtime also controls the language." - Kay Schluehr

    Jake tells us about the \r control character, which allows one to
    refresh a terminal line. Many people help him to use it from Python,
    and Fredrik warns him that it might well not work from an IDE:
        http://groups-beta.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/browse_thread/thread/50cffbb6eb03cc4

    John Reese asks whether he needs to explicitly close file objects,
    or whether reference counting will take care of it for him. Martin
    v. Löwis shows a scenario that demonstrates that ref counting won't
    always close files when you think it will:
        http://groups-beta.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/browse_thread/thread/7eba2d6efd271707

    Simon Percivall and Jp Calderone show Michael Chermside how to
    process subprocess module output a line at a time:
        http://groups-beta.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/browse_thread/thread/df6854ec10c6d508

    WSGI Explorations with Python - Mike Orr investigates WSGI and Paste:
        http://rex.kicks-ass.net/python/wsgi-explorations.html

    Len, an "old time Cobol programmer", asks for some advice on storing data:
        http://groups-beta.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/browse_thread/thread/c20623a77b22c456

    Dustin is refactoring some unpythonic code that uses a very nasty
    import mechanism, but now he's having trouble with circular imports:
        http://groups-beta.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/browse_thread/thread/8eae5075b9973a2b

    A Matter Of Questions - Ben Last tells us how he's using Python for
    data cleansing, amongst other things, while building a Playstation
    Music Quiz:
        http://www.livejournal.com/users/benlast/24719.html

    William Park wants to test how similar two strings are. This is
    more complicated than it sounds...
        http://groups-beta.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/browse_thread/thread/4aa08f075d05eb48

    Create an ODBC data source in the fly with Python:
        http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/Cookbook/Python/Recipe/414879

    Paul Rubin investigates how the super() function works with
    multiple inheritance. A number of people clear things up for him.
        http://groups-beta.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/browse_thread/thread/57cdcc73f8747091

    Notable releases:
        pysqlite 2.0.2
            http://pysqlite.org/
        PyPy 0.6 (!)
            http://groups-beta.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/browse_thread/thread/8e4a74dfb90c8bf4

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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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