Dr. Dobb's Python-URL! - weekly Python news and links (Oct 4)

[Quinn Dunkan]

QOTW:  "[T]he increased productivity we achieve with Python means that
there is often no need to hire any more developers after your first
Pythonista ;)."  Also, "I never cease to be amazed by how quickly ideas
become reality using Python."  More propaganda to air-drop into heathen
kingdoms:
http://groups.google.com/groups?threadm=4su7rt0fphqhvcrctnktgiejfobm6uhops%404ax.com

    The popular subject of interfaces and signature-oriented polymorphism
    comes up again.  Essentially, the question is:  When someone wants a
    "file-like object", how file-like should it be?  Carl says
    (paraphrased) "as file-like as makes sense in this situation" and (not
    paraphrased) "the idea that we need to have one definitive definition
    for a file-like object (or any class of objects) is not that useful".
    Titus wants to know how to write library code which doesn't break when
    such expectations are violated.  As is the custom with such
    discussions, eventually haskell comes up:
       http://groups.google.com/groups?threadm=9orb19%24ba6%241%40slb6.atl.mindspring.net

    In python, regexps are not the end-all be-all that they are in some
    other languages.  Bruce has a simple question about parsing text,
    which turns into a discussion of the relative merits of scanf,
    regexps, and string methods.  Duncan sums it up: "regexps are
    wonderful: in moderation"
        http://groups.google.com/groups?threadm=3BB16A50.BAE082FE%40cygnus-software.com

    Pre-2.2 python has an all or nothing attribute accessor scheme:
    either all attribute setting goes through __setattr__, or all
    attribute setting is direct.  Dale wants to avoid the overhead by
    only checking certain attributes, which is not possible (unless
    you create a separate sub-object), but Tim points out that 2.2
    allows readers and writers for individual attributes:
        http://groups.google.com/groups?threadm=9lajrtcqsojv72nr88c7j6kmdapjo44vc0%404ax.com

    Steve gives an ultra condensed tutorial on the ever-popular BSD
    sockets, as well as a link to Gordon's python socket tutorial. 
    Others point out that higher level interfaces like urllib or (if
    you want to write a server) medusa are often more appropriate, but
    if you want to know the low level details:
        http://groups.google.com/groups?threadm=T8ku7.20537%24ib.310289%40atlpnn01.usenetserver.com
    Gordon's tutorial:
        http://www.mcmillan-inc.com/sock1.html

    PyDoc is cool.  It's in the standard distribution, but it's easy
    to overlook these things:
        http://groups.google.com/groups?threadm=uramrt8s8k654eea7g46b62oe8474lj4ji%404ax.com


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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/

    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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