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

Skip Montanaro skip at pobox.com
Thu Nov 1 10:17:07 EST 2001


QOTWs:  "Maybe the next slogan for the 10th International Python
Conference should be 'Python has nothing to hide.'"  F Basegmez
                       
"... [F]or now at least the cost-effective way to deal with that
(in any language) is good testing.  Your code will be tested either
way, it's just a question of whether it is done by you or your
customers."  Dave Brueck

"With the launch of Windows XP, there's no better time to think about
upgrading your system memory."  ZiffDavis-transported advertisement

"Python ... finds itself used as a work horse or even a race horse. 
Neither type of horse belongs in the glue factory."  Paul Rubin

    Emile van Sebille unearths an interesting Python Eggs page at
        http://www.rimbault.net/python/

    Emile also writes a workalike for the ReXX translate() function:
        http://groups.google.com/groups?th=a0ffa6d492327146

    Dave Brueck presents useful software development guidelines in
    response to a question about using Python in a commercial, team
    environment.  Paul Rubin gets a quote-of-the-week nod from the
    timbot as well.
        http://groups.google.com/groups?th=673bf7e4b4a0ec1d

    Python's introspective interactivity is waaaaaayyy cool.
	http://groups.google.com/groups?th=2e24faedfe88aa4c

    Drew Csillag announces the release of SkunkWeb 3.1.3.
        http://skunkweb.sourceforge.net/

    OSE is a generic application framework suitable for constructing
    general purpose applications, distributed systems and web based
    services.
        http://ose.sourceforge.net

    Martin von Loewis shows how to use random.shuffle to select items
    at random from a list.
        http://groups.google.com/groups?th=37fda6c40067f7a

    Two threads run about escaping strings for use in SQL statements:
        http://groups.google.com/groups?th=859eb6fb477658ca
        http://groups.google.com/groups?th=a5c057fededcb6


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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 continued Andrew Kuchling's marvelous tradition
    of summarizing action on the python-dev mailing list once every
    other week, into July 2001.  Any volunteers to re-start this
    valuable series?
        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/

    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

    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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