Dr. Dobb's Python-URL! - weekly Python news and links (Feb 1)

[Cameron Laird]

QOTW: "The right solution will end up being unique to Python though. It has
to feel like Python." -- Guido van Rossum
    http://aws.typepad.com/aws/2005/01/amazon_devcon_g_4.html

"Sparring with Alex Martelli is like boxing Mike Tyson, except that one
experiences brain enhancement rather than brain damage :)." -- beliavsky


    This is your opportunity to vote on the prospective creation of 
    de.comp.lang.python:
        http://groups.google.de/groups?selm=erneuter-CfV-1-Einrichtung-de.comp.lang.python-16.1.2005-Supersede%40dana.de
	http://gvv.th-h.de/

    eval() often inverts repr().  pickle() makes for more reliable
    serialization:
        http://groups-beta.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/browse_thread/thread/f4324fe8aa00f7f5/

    Kamilche illustrates how scripting (Web-scraping, in this case)
    can put eBay (Google, Amazon, ...) under *your* control:
        http://groups-beta.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/browse_thread/thread/1b0d7ebb06c49272

    Tim Churches pulls off the remarkable feat of appearing to say
    true, useful, and not-stultifying things on licensing:
        http://groups-beta.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/browse_thread/thread/a1e07194c795f505/

    How declarative are metaclasses and decorators?  Diez B. Roggisch
    has been helpful with this and similarly interesting summaries and
    examples:
        http://groups-beta.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/browse_thread/thread/a75da70b0845b6fe/
    Art Siegel also approaches the question, in a more narrative
    fashion.  Notice in the same thread Steve Holden's persistent
    advertising of PyCon 2005, emphasizing the celebrities (martellibot!,
    Armin "I Infer That" Rigo, ...) expected to appear, some for the
    first time ever in this dimension.

    Nick Coghlan explains the trickiness of Duncan Booth and F. 
    PetitJean.  This is a chance to practice generators, zip,
    map, and iter, all in about two lines:
        http://groups-beta.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/browse_thread/thread/a6ba37b0fb0fa69e

    Do you know the standard library well enough to recognize its
    parametric statistics?
        http://groups-beta.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/browse_thread/thread/1ddd1e869fe6e08a/

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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.

    deli.cio.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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