Dr. Dobb's Python-URL! - weekly Python news and links (Oct 25)

[Cameron Laird]

QOTW:  "[M]uch of the sample Python code in the world represents
relatively good programming practices." -- Tim Roberts
    http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=pu3mn0hpnqn4shs0cofgfa8i2gu61mb5pd%404ax.com

"[C]hoosing a language based on the speed of its implementations is the
ultimate _premature_ optimization, of course." -- Alex Martelli
    http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=1gl6fnk.m1zq7z1fm0nhbN%25aleaxit%40yahoo.com


    Andreas Kostyrka summarizes the design judgment behind 
    Python's locking.
        http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=mailman.4377.1097009674.5135.python-list%40python.org

    Not only has the logging module become an apparent moral
    imperative, but explaining its ease seems on the same path.
    Ville Vainio and others do their part.
        http://groups.google.com/groups?frame=left&th=10bba0a04f732ecf

    Andrew Clover knows how to deal with expat's limitations in
    confronting DBCS encodings.  You'll want this if you deal with
    oriental writing systems.
         http://groups.google.com/groups?frame=left&th=ece30b7ac22a07ca

    Web production is collaborative.  This has consequences.
    Alex Martelli makes the design ones clear.  Max M and others
    argue the range of applicability of "templating".
        http://groups.google.com/groups?frame=left&th=e04c0e3a94f5dbea

    Python can compose functions in single lines, when pushed.
        http://groups.google.com/groups?frame=left&th=70faaff2eafa600f

    Rather than fret about schedules, compatibility, and so on,
    Jeremy Bowers' response to the puzzle of Tile upgrades is 
    simply to use them.
        http://groups.google.com/groups?frame=left&th=7470b5487e0132f8

    Python even connects to the real world.  That's the experience,
    at least, of the folks at Engenuity Corporation and Phaseit on
    the verge of sponsoring an Agile Control Forum.  "Control" here
    has to do with physical objects--things that move.
        http://www.engcorp.com/acf/AcfAnnouncement


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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

    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.

    *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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