Dr. Dobb's Python-URL! - weekly Python news and links (May 30)

[Fuzzyman]

Cameron Laird wrote:
> QOTW:  "Making a user class work anywhere you can put a mapping in Perl is
> deep magic, but easy in Python. Creating types that act like files and can be
> used wherever a file is used is SOP in Python; I'm not even sure it's
> possible in Perl (probably is, but it's again deep magic)." - Mike Meyer
>
> "... I don't bother with classes unless I'm going to end up with multiple
> instances (or I'm pushed into a corner ..." - Dan Sommers
>
>
>     Over TWO DOZEN Python-based projects have been accepted for
>     the 2006 Summer of Code:
>         http://wiki.python.org/moin/SummerOfCode
>
>     While waiting for more polished summaries from the Iceland Sprint,
>     admire a few of the incidental photographs:
> 	http://www.flickr.com/photos/tags/pyneedforspeed/
> 	http://www.flickr.com/photos/30842681@N00/
>
>     John Machin and others stride throught the periods of sequences:
> 	http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/msg/74c81885d7dd4b0e
> 	http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/msg/b9d10df764bdd3df
>
>     Under-invested desiderata:  documentation, regression tests,
>     marketing, serenity, and, as Steve Holden recently discovered,
>     *benchmarks*:
> 	http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/msg/903d5ba9745bad5b
>
>     Fuzzyman advertises yet another convenience of Movable Python:
> 	http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/msg/35baaa3af891c12f
>


That's a very surprising mention, thanks. :-)

A *better* URL for the thread is :

http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/browse_frm/thread/28edb6b248dbae85/6a64800985655dce#6a64800985655dce

All the best,

Fuzzyman
http://www.voidspace.org.uk/python/index.shtml