Dr. Dobb's Python-URL! - weekly Python news and links (Apr 9)
Dean Goodmanson
ponderor at lycos.com
Tue Apr 9 11:56:50 EDT 2002
QOTW: "If you have numerous objects that are conceptually similar, so
that it makes sense to name them sequentially, then you *really* want
to put them in a list or dictionary instead.
The same thing is true of almost *every* use of exec or eval() -- it
seems handy, but if you look for it, there's a better solution to your
real problem." Jeff Shannon
PEP 285: during a week in which sqrt(False) was computed in all
seriousness, we can safely conclude bool is not a black and white issue.
http://groups.google.com/groups?q=%22PEP%20285&hl=en&sa=N&tab=wg
http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-list/2002-April/097312.html
A quick round of options for printer output
http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-list/2002-April/097043.html
Once again, for the record: the mandatory change in the way division
works is going to be in 3.0.
http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-list/2002-April/097302.html
A survey contrast of Python and C++
http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-list/2002-April/096465.html
Large project wxPython testimonials
http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-list/2002-April/097175.html
Alex Martelli: "Why don't we start thinking of a similarly dual-tracked Python -- one track aiming at stability ... one aiming at frequent releases, innovation,
etc."
http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-list/2002-April/096866.html
**Discussion moved to Python-Dev:**
http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev
_The Perl Review_ does Python
http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-list/2002-April/096602.html
Python interest group for the Los Angeles area
http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-list/2002-April/096896.html
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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
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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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