Dr. Dobb's Python-URL! - weekly Python news and links (May 14)
Paul Prescod
paulp at ActiveState.com
Mon May 14 23:34:48 EDT 2001
Bill Gates calls Python, "an extremely well-designed language"!
No, Bill Gates doesn't, but one of his two partners on the
first Microsoft BASIC interpreter does. Monte Davidoff, who
programmed floating point arithmetic for that first MS product,
is now into Python.
http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/18909.html
Chris Abraham announces foundation of the Zope Python
User's Group:
http://www.zpug.org/
Mark Lutz, one of Python's writers-in-residence, interviewed
on O'Reilly. Slashdot picks up the interview.
http://python.oreilly.com/news/python_0501.html
http://slashdot.org/developers/01/05/11/0021241.shtml
A thread on range-generation shortcuts reveals deep truths about
the future of iterators and inconsistencies in Python's
implementation of filter:
http://groups.google.com/groups?ic=1&th=771b2135332fffae
In the same thread, Alex Martelli describes the reason that
Python does not include the top index in slices and ranges:
http://groups.google.com/groups?ic=1&selm=9db4i801beb%40news2.newsguy.com
Only a few weeks after the release of PyGame, a game-development
framework for Python, Pete Shinners releases a game based on it.
The game is written in concise, readable Python code:
http://shredwheat.zopesite.com/solarwolf
Several people send John Flynn code emulating two of his
favorite features from Delphi, property handlers and event
handlers.
http://groups.google.com/groups?ic=1&th=5e36e9393ed06770
Skip Montanaro asks about converting between 8-bit strings and
Unicode strings and learns about the Python's Unicode design.
http://groups.google.com/groups?ic=1&th=e05ff0346d9e47d1
Daniel Klein asks whether Python's survival is dependent on Guido's
interest and ability to avoid buses. Various posters describe why
Python is safe no matter what happens to any individuals:
http://groups.google.com/groups?ic=1&th=e0a0d70bc71cedc3
How do threads, processes, message queues and IDEs interact
on Windows? A "Python DoEvents" thread reveals all.
http://groups.google.com/groups?ic=1&th=771b2135332fffae
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Everything 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
daily python url
http://www.pythonware.com/daily
comp.lang.python.announce announces new Python software. Be
sure to scan this newly-revitalized newsgroup at least weekly.
http://groups.google.com/groups?oi=djq&as_ugroup=comp.lang.python.announce
Michael Hudson continues Andrew Kuchling's marvelous tradition
of summarizing action on the python-dev mailing list once every
other week.
http://starship.python.net/crew/mwh/summaries/
http://www.amk.ca/python/dev
The Vaults of Parnassus ambitiously collect 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 Software Foundation has replaced the Python Consortium
as an independent nexus of activity
http://www.python.org/psf/
Cetus does much of the same
http://www.cetus-links.de/oo_python.html
Python FAQTS
http://python.faqts.com/
Python To-Do List anticipates some of Python's future direction
http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/todo.py
Python Journal is at work on its second issue
http://www.pythonjournal.com
Links2Go is a new semi-automated link collection; it's impressive
what AI can generate
http://www.links2go.com/search?search=python
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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