Dr. Dobb's Python-URL! - weekly Python news and links (Apr 18)

Simon Brunning python-url at phaseit.net
Mon Apr 18 23:11:22 CEST 2005


QOTW: "Darn. I finally say something that gets into Quote of the Week,
and it's attributed to someone else!" -- Greg Ewing (we think)
    http://groups-beta.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/msg/15b836a557afccb2

"If there were something wrong with the API, Guido would have long since
fired up the time machine and changed the timeline so that all would be
as right as rain." - Raymond Hettinger

"Get real.  I can't imagine using anything so complex." -- Scott David
Daniels, in response to a suggestion to try (1j-1) as a counting base

        
    Continuations for Curmudgeons:
        http://www.intertwingly.net/blog/2005/04/13/Continuations-for-Curmudgeons

    Textual watermarks with Python Imaging Library:
        http://www.livejournal.com/users/gniemeyer/10279.html

    The new Python Cookbook is out of date already:
        http://42.blogs.warnock.me.uk/2005/04/oreillycom_onli.html
        
    Thunks for nothing:
        http://groups-beta.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/browse_thread/thread/bbb6f71ff27f83a6/282bc755d5be3f62
        http://groups-beta.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/browse_thread/thread/6e50601e8b1d8d18/db4f746b8b4d76ea
        
    A tutorial for building a simple to-do list application using WSGIKit, SQLObject, and Zope Page Templates:
        http://wsgikit.org/docs/TodoTutorial.html
        
    What can WSGIKit do for you?
        http://blog.ianbicking.org/what-can-wsgikit-do-for-you.html
        
    The Participatory Culture Foundation's desktop video player - video
    over BitTorrent:
        http://www.participatoryculture.org/
        
    Next-generation distributed version control:
        http://www.bazaar-ng.org/
        
    Will LAMP eclipse Java?
        http://news.com.com/2061-10795_3-5663085.html
        
    Does the fact that Python 2.4 is built using VC++ on Windows give us
    a problem?
        http://groups-beta.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/browse_thread/thread/bccb45b7dae7ddd5/7a91ce5a9541221c
        
    Look up IP addresses by country:
        http://www.livejournal.com/users/zestyping/111325.html
        
    Python 2.3.2 for PalmOS:
        http://groups-beta.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/browse_thread/thread/1d835f30343cabec/4efb02adafe3f7b5
        

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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

    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.

    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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