Python-URL! - weekly Python news and links (Apr 23)

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QOTW:  "The users." - Ali, answering a question on what's special about 
Emacs.

"Dynamic languages look at WSDL and shrug - another example of the hoops 
that
static typing forces humans to go through." - Gordon Weakliem
 
http://lists.community.tummy.com/pipermail/frpythoneers/2007-April/001342.html


     The current issue of the rather prestigious *Computing in Science
     and Engineering* journal is devoted to Python (!):
	http://csdl2.computer.org/persagen/DLAbsToc.jsp?resourcePath=/dl/mags/cs/&toc=comp/mags/cs/2007/03/c3toc.xml

     Python is just as capable--and more!--as JavaScript, VBScript,
     ... for controlling COM.  Here's a little chatter on expression
     of "Array" data:
	http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/browse_thread/thread/af1a19a4e3541060/

     Despite "Python-URL!"'s habitual ... reserve about regular
     expressions, there *are* places they fit perfectly.  Steven
     Bethard and Peter Otten show off how good a simple RE can be:
	http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/browse_thread/thread/870b46f0e4bc02c6/

     Python 2.5.1 "is the first bugfix release of Python 2.5":
	http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/msg/2e58fab5387e1b77

     Michael Hoffman correctly explains the so-often-misunderstood
     semantics of '*' (for example) in subprocess invocations.  Notice
     use of the little-known expanduser(), expandvars(), and check_call():
	http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/msg/639cc8af04a91595

     Carsten Haese supplies a model for construction in Python of a
     VB/Delphi iterator:
	http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/msg/557e1358aa92c5d3
 


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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, Planet Python indexes
     much of the universe of Pybloggers.
         http://www.planetpython.org/

     The Python Papers aims to publish "the efforts of Python enthusiats".
	http://pythonpapers.org/

     Readers have recommended the "Planet" sites:
	http://planetpython.org
	http://planet.python.org

     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 continues the marvelous tradition early borne by
     Andrew Kuchling, Michael Hudson, Brett Cannon, Tony Meyer, and Tim
     Lesher 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

     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

     Many Python conferences around the world are in preparation.
     Watch this space for links to them.

     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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