Dr. Dobb's Python-URL! - weekly Python news and links (Dec 10)

[Cameron Laird]

QOTW:  "I like Python and the Guido Python implementation because it lets
me go from problem statement to solution quickly for a wide variety of
problems... small and large."  -- George Demmy

"Start with a soft-realtime OS.  After spending a few miserable weeks on
it, you'll probably find that the apparent unfairness in your GUI app is
a shallow problem after all <0.9 wink>."  --threads-are-a-hoot-ly y'rs - tim


    Andrew Kuchling describes "What's new in 2.3".
	http://www.python.org/dev/doc/devel/whatsnew/whatsnew23.html

    Terry Reedy and others show how to think about generators
    Pythonically.
	http://groups.google.com/groups?th=69fd6c940b649b69 

    Martin v. Löwis has experience and definite advice for development
    of applications which involve multiple human languages.
	http://groups.google.com/groups?th=aa9994c7153c2c76

    People who use long integers are the sort careful to distinguish
    range() from xrange(), both semantically and pragmatically.  What
    relationship should all these have with each other?
	http://groups.google.com/groups?th=1cc52c6359e68cac

    The purpose of PyRapi is to provide a simple Python
    interface to the libraries of the SynCE project.
	http://sf.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=30550&release_id=126620
	http://synce.sourceforge.net/

    Does it make Python sense to expose bytecode or the PVM?
	http://groups.google.com/groups?th=b45e1469c41c01f1

    A quick class-attribute tutorial:
	http://groups.google.com/groups?th=73333e535f727722

    Andrew Kuchling summarizes the current pertinence of Parrot to
    Python.
	http://www.amk.ca/conceit/parrot.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

    Brett Cannon continues the marvelous tradition established by 
    Andrew Kuchling and Michael Hudson 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.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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