Dr. Dobb's Python-URL! - weekly Python news and links (Jul 12)
QOTW: "Python's a language you can swear by, not at." - Chris
"Every sufficiently advanced LISP application will eventually reimplement
Python." - Hodgson's Law
Chad Himeda asks for a nested loop limit and Peter Hansen answers
with a quick test on the commandline. A discussion on the merits of
code approaching this limit entrails.
http://groups.google.com/groups?threadm=fd07865f.0407071045.16e20c84%40posti...
Karl Pech wants to calculate PI using the Monte Carlo method - and fast.
http://groups.google.com/groups?threadm=ccke8p%24c0h%2406%241%40news.t-onlin...
Chris recollects how he fell in love with Python.
http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=mailman.138.1089318827.5135.python-list...
Marco Aschwanden asks for opinions on the use of multiple return
statements in a single function.
http://groups.google.com/groups?threadm=mailman.158.1089358188.5135.python-l...
Bryan Olson searches for the longest matching prefix of a string using
regular expressions. Michael Hudson offers an alternate approach.
http://groups.google.com/groups?threadm=gN5Hc.12587%24ia1.1667%40newssvr27.n...
Contrary to the current documentation, the open() builtin is not
retained for compatibility only. It may even grow some extra logic and
no longer be confined to ordinary files.
http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2004-July/045931.html
Guido van Rossum is less concerned about variable names shading
builtins than many posters on c.l.py.
http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2004-July/045948.html
Anthony Baxter announces release of the first alpha version of
Python 2.4. You are invited to download and participate in the test.
http://groups.google.com/groups?threadm=mailman.157.1089357112.5135.python-l...
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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.
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
Brett Cannon continues the marvelous tradition established by
Andrew Kuchling and Michael Hudson 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
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
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@pythonjournal.com and editor@pythonjournal.cognizor.com
welcome submission of material that helps people's understanding
of Python use, and offer Web presentation of your work.
*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.pytho...
Previous - (U)se the (R)esource, (L)uke! - messages are listed here:
http://www.ddj.com/topics/pythonurl/
http://purl.org/thecliff/python/url.html (dormant)
or
http://groups.google.com/groups?oi=djq&as_q=+Python-URL!&as_ugroup=comp.lang.python
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