Dr. Dobb's Python-URL! - weekly Python news and links (Apr 2)

Dean Goodmanson ponderor at lycos.com
Tue Apr 2 18:13:49 EST 2002


QOTW:  "Is this one of those deals where you tickle a file with that
'mouse' thing, and then a dialog box from an irrelevant program pops
up and steals the focus before you can finish what you started?  I
love stuff like that." -Tim Peters

"[T]he distinctive difference between PCs and other consumer electronics
is that only PCs are allowed to fail in routine use." -Peter Coffee


    Does Python deserve a boolean type?  Powerful minds analyze PEP 285.
	http://groups.google.com/groups?th=3d8f05b445cdbf9b

    Aahz echoes timbot's entreaties to esteem the benefits of Queue.Queue.
	http://groups.google.com/groups?th=1e465bd53977862f

    April Fool's roundup:
    ZWiki Author Disillusioned...Rubymortis sets in. - see "Big news"
        http://zwiki.org/GeneralDiscussion
        http://zwiki.org/GeneralDiscussion200204 (future archive)
    ZopeNewbies: Microsoft takes over Zope
        http://www.zopenewbies.net/1017662225/index_html
    Sestina deemed best format for switch statement implementation
	http://www.acmenet.net/~jilhan/sesform.html
    Docstrings requirement feature in 2.2.1 avoidable by use of "<wink>"  
    SOAP to be transported over IRC; finger/whois replaces WSDL.

    The *real* Tkinter documentation URL:
	http://groups.google.com/groups?th=83aa5100ac5e4d76&seekm=slrnaa7ic5.ehu.philh%40comuno.freeserve.co.uk#link20

    Bob McMillan elicits "Python's Creator Guido van Rossum's Take on Open
    Source's Favorite Serpent"
        http://www.linux-mag.com/2001-12/rossum_01.html

    Plotting Pointers:
        http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-list/2002-March/094177.html

    Nicolas Chauvat is looking for interested people to form a Logic-SIG 
    or CLP-SIG.
        http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-list/2002-March/094019.html

    Reading binary as text is not the easiest way..
        http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-list/2002-March/094424.html
    
    Coding can be pure poetry...
        http://groups.google.com/groups?th=83aa5100ac5e4d76&seekm=FC718F7B3AF20F62.09ECC4E1E82F69E7.7E08A6AB55BAC1B9%40lp.airnews.net#link6

    Measuring memory allocation
        http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-list/2002-March/094191.html

    Messaging or Threading..and safely
        http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-list/2002-March/094235.html

    PEP 262: Database of Installed Python Packages Moving into Interface
    Development and on to Integration

    
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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  
    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.

    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.org/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
     
    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.

    *Py: the Journal of the Python Language*
        http://www.pyzine.com

    Links2Go is a new semi-automated link collection; it's impressive
    what AI can generate
        http://www.links2go.com/search?search=python

    Tenth International Python Conference 
        http://www.python10.org            

    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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