Dr. Dobb's Python-URL! - weekly Python news and links (Apr 15)

[Dean Goodmanson]

QOTW: "Fortunately, the very act of using Python grants you super
intelligence. Unfortunately it tends to erode unless you update
frequently." -Joshua Macey
        http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-list/2002-April/097612.html

"Pyrex isn't designed to speed up Python code, but to bridge the
gap between Python and non-Python." - Greg Ewing, RE: ANN: Pyrex - a
language for writing Python extension modules 
    http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-list/2002-April/097636.html

"There's no such thing as inexpensive patent litigation." -Alan Sutin, head
of IT and e-commerce practice for U.S. office of Greenberg Traurig LLP


    Help with Python advocacy and marketing 
        http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-list/2002-April/097629.html
    
    Pymacs: an emacs-like editor which is scriptable with python. 
        http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-list/2002-April/097592.html
    
    vi & vim Tab management tips
        http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-list/2002-April/097821.html
    
    Google Web API's with Python, Thanks Mark Pilgrim & Simon Willison
        http://diveintomark.org/archives/2002/04/11.html
    
    Easter Eggshells: import-stuff-coffee-this-except-t-shirt-ni-jerk-xyzzy-syzygy-Lulu-started-it-ly ours
        http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-list/2002-April/097610.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
     
    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.*

Previous - (U)se the (R)esource, (L)uke! - messages are listed here:
  http://www.ddj.com/topics/pythonurl/         
  http://purl.org/thecliff/python/url.html (dormant)
or
  http://groups.google.com/groups?oi=djq&as_q=+Python-URL!&as_ugroup=comp.lang.python


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