Dr. Dobb's Python-URL! - weekly Python news and links (Sep 24)

[Quinn Dunkan]

QOTW:  "Is Python fit for multi-tiered apps?--Yes, especially as an
alternative to Java!"  The context for this was the observation that
Python appears to do a bunch of Three (and four!) Letter Acronyms just
as well as Java (the original poster actually wanted to know about
multi-tierd apps, which sounds much more rugged and industrial).  AMK
mentions an article about such an app, which well documents the design
of a mid-sized python project (it also mentions his Cervantic web
application framework, Quixote).
    http://groups.google.com/groups?threadm=9o7lvv%24170%2401%241%40news.t-online.com
    http://www.amk.ca/python/writing/mx-architecture/

   The Ottawa Python Authors Group goes live at
       http://www.opag.ca 

    Sam is apparently having trouble with instance and class
    attributes.  It turns out the problem was a bug in other
    code (importing the wrong module), but in the meantime
    there's a lot of discussion about scoping, binding, and
    Alex's new "Borg" pattern:
        http://groups.google.com/groups?threadm=ii7k7yvqi87.fsf%40central.sun.com

    The Law of Demeter says that objects shouldn't have (or need)
    deep knowledge of the structure of other objects.  If that
    was unclear or you don't agree or you think "well, that's
    obvious, but not very specific", the following thread explains
    things much better:
        http://groups.google.com/groups?threadm=slrn9qf4r5.p9.slinkp23%40roaddog.armsnet

    Tim demonstrates what fun can be had with Python 2.2 generators
    when finding permutations.  It's also a good example of a recursive
    generator:
        http://groups.google.com/groups?threadm=mailman.1000707871.18101.python-list%40python.org

    For a journalistic treatment of generators and other 2.2 goodies,
    see
        http://www.unixreview.com/articles/2001/0109/0109h/0109h.htm

    Chris wants to bundle python modules similar to Java's JARs.  It's
    possible with the __import__ hook, as Installer and py2exe
    demonstrate:
        http://groups.google.com/groups?threadm=rsHrsJAP5op7Ew7L%40jessikat.fsnet.co.uk


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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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