Dr. Dobb's Python-URL! - weekly Python news and links (Aug 15)

[Jack Diederich]

QOTW:  "Consider changing your business plan: write crappy software, charge
heaps for support -- it's not a novel idea" - John Machin

"To make it run fast, use psyco. To make it even faster, implement the
compare function in C." - Raymond Hettinger


    A Perl convert gladly announces his conversion but misses CPAN:
        http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/browse_thread/thread/f12a260f3fdc45e3/
  
    Can you obscure python code?  Sure, but if you didn't bother to read 
    the FAQ what makes you think someone will bother to read your code?
        http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/browse_thread/thread/b4e08adec2d835f5/
  
    Timbot exhaustively satisfies those with an interest in the
    details of not-a-number formats as Python knows them:
	http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/browse_thread/thread/5c2b4b2a88c8df4/

    Alex Martelli provides a recipe for a model embedding of Python
    in C (or C++) which culminates in passing dictionary values
    between the two languages (as well as an accurate summary of the
    dead-trees literature of interest to newcomers):
	http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/browse_thread/thread/ab5367982b59b564/

    David Mertz is not dead he's just writing on Developerworks instead
    of c.l.py:
        http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/blogs/page/davidmertz
  
  Releases of Note
    SQLAlchemy 0.2.7  "Python SQL toolkit and Object Relational Mapper"
        http://cheeseshop.python.org/pypi/SQLAlchemy/0.2.7
  
    Yahoo! Developer Center, Python Edition.
        http://developer.yahoo.com/python/
  
  Upcoming Community Events
    The 2007 Southern California Linux Expo specifically invites
    proposals for Python-related papers:
	http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/msg/36316f6227738fed

    Plone Conference 2006, October 25-27 (Seattle, Washington)
        http://plone.org/events/conferences/seattle-2006
  
    Open Source Developers Conference Dec 5-8 (Melbourne, Australia)
        http://www.osdc.com.au/ 
  

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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

    Python411 indexes "podcasts ... to help people learn Python ..."
    Updates appear more-than-weekly:
        http://www.awaretek.com/python/index.html

    Steve Bethard, Tim Lesher, and Tony Meyer continue the marvelous
    tradition early borne by Andrew Kuchling, Michael Hudson and Brett
    Cannon 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/

    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/python/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

    Although unmaintained since 2002, the Cetus collection of Python
    hyperlinks retains a few gems.
        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://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0042/

    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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