Dr. Dobb's Python-URL! - weekly Python news and links (Nov 26)

[Cameron Laird]

QOTW:  "... '[B]ut assume that I have some other use case' isn't a valid
use case". - Fredrik Lundh

"Rolling your own solution, on the other hand, can end in a long road
discovering what those CORBA people were doing for all those years." - Paul
Boddie


NOTW:  sceptifications.


    Steven D'Aprano carefully details a common confusion among
    newcomers about empty lists and initialization:
        http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/browse_thread/thread/8480fae54a64fc15/

    Inyeol Lee and others illustrate use of regular expression
    syntax having to do with repeated patterns:
        http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/browse_thread/thread/b5e7abb4ff1e156c/

    Metakit 2.4.9.5 corrects a potential disk-full error, and
    improves performance greatly in certain circumstances:
        http://www.equi4.com/pub/mk/CHANGES
	http://www.equi4.com/metakit.html

    William Peterson jokes that, "[i]f you ask ten people on 
    this newsgroup [about GUI construction newcomers] you'll
    probably get twelve opinions"--and then the community 
    promptly proves him right:
        http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/browse_thread/thread/6fd1ea6b4a2d31f8/

    Having arrived in the twenty-first century, clp now has 
    its own (provisional) podcast:
        http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/browse_thread/thread/b39581f59dce9191/

    David Wahler cogently perverts^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^Hextends pickle
    to serialize *classes* (as opposed to their instances):
        http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/browse_thread/thread/10a03f094303a91c/

    Fully-general backward-compatibility has substantial costs,
    often greater than the version migration it's supposed to
    spare us.  Several of the regulars discuss this seriously:
        http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/browse_thread/thread/423d9dfa80456966/

    __slots__ are only a (memory) optimization, restricted to
    well-defined circumstances, explains the martellibot:
        http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/browse_thread/thread/1cc68de7af477386/

    A good thing about Cheetah is that it cooperates with Python's
    inheritance:
        http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/browse_thread/thread/f063406b648c7d0c/

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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/

    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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