Dr. Dobb's Python-URL! - weekly Python news and links (Aug 31)

[Peter Otten]

QOTW:  "Python is clearly on a huge evolutionary surge and conservative views
on the matter are definitely not winning out right now.  And the usual argument
(submit a patch!) doesn't really work when those who want to avoid many changes
try it... I've been *not* submitting a patch on lots of changes to Python, but
somehow it's never been accepted. ;-)"  Peter Hansen

"I've never seen a more complicated, verbose pile of hogwash than the
'deliverd by mailman' mailing list program."  Carol Carrot, perhaps
innocent of experience with Majordomo and Sendmail


    Michelle Levesque's PyWebOff annotates the Python-savvy Web frameworks.
    PEP 333 offers to rationalize a piece of them.
        http://pyre.third-bit.com/pyweb/index.html
	 http://groups.google.com/groups?th=7f19fe19b40c1be0

    How do generator expressions and list comprehensions compare?  Experts
    explain why the former are *better*--OK, better in several, although
    not all, ways
        http://groups.google.com/groups?frame=left&th=1d4aca073edaaa2f

    Jim Hugunin domesticates Python for the Microsoft weltanschaung.
        http://blogs.msdn.com/hugunin/
	http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,1636906,00.asp

    How does Python regard file systems?  It's a timely topic, with
    pyfmf its most concrete expression.
        http://groups.google.com/groups?frame=left&th=c379db570ef96c43
        http://sourceforge.net/projects/pyfmf
	http://richard.jones.name/google-hacks/gmail-filesystem/gmail-filesystem.html

    High-profile Pythoneers Michael Sparks and Alex Martelli demonstrate
    interests beyond the perfection of the One True Language:
    petabyte-scale archiving, and marriage.
        http://www.pcw.co.uk/news/1157046
	http://www.aleax.it/mar.html
	http://bonanna.multiply.com/photos/album/1
    
    Uche Ogbuji reveals his habits for keeping current with Pythonia.
        http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/wlg/5490

    
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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

    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

    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.

    *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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