Dr. Dobb's Python-URL! - weekly Python news and links (Jan 30)

[Magnus Lycka]

QOTW:  "[The state pattern] can be very confusing for newbies and peoples
having no experience with *dynamic* languages, and I guess control-freaks
and static-typing-addicts would runaway screaming.  But I like it anyway
!-)" - bruno desthuilliers

"[D]ubious Python hacks that should never be used in production code are
fun, which is what c.l.p. is all about!" - Michael Hoffman


    After four years, the Roundup Issue Tracker version 1.0 is released.
    Congratulations!
        http://roundup.sourceforge.net/
    
    The Myghty web and templating framework also reaches version 1.0.
    "Myghty is a Python Server Page templating and web framework
    designed for large-scale, high availability websites and
    applications.  Its conceptual design and template syntax is derived
    from HTML::Mason, the widely used mod_perl web application platform."
        http://www.myghty.org/
    
    The latest ActivePython release adds support for Mac OS X/x86, Windows/x64
    and Linux/x86_64.
        http://www.activestate.com/Products/ActivePython/
    
    PyWeek, The Python Game Programming Challenge, returns.
        http://www.pyweek.org/
    
    How to have both a GUI event loop and a listener socket in
    the same program...
        http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/browse_frm/thread/13c10335c0a132a5
    
    As Bruno said, some will probably run away screaming, but
    you can actually change the class of an instance.
        http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/browse_frm/thread/cb581d34561d266d
    
    Sometimes there are several ways of doing very simple things,
    such as picking out an item from a set with only one element.
    Some ways are faster than others...
        http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/browse_frm/thread/d0b74bdd22a58d0
    
    Last week people used Python for sudoku. Now it's poker!
        http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/browse_frm/thread/1a9bac6ae511c1c7
    
    Is it time for unicode in Python operators and names yet?
        http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/browse_frm/thread/5f4cb622ffa9316a

    Python continues to be a good "choice for beginners."
        http://www.ariel.com.au/a/teaching-programming.html
    
    How do we know if there is any input for us in sys.stdin?
        http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/browse_frm/thread/6fd2168cde0fd89a
    

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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

    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/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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