Dr. Dobb's Python-URL! - weekly Python news and links (Dec 23)
Erik Max Francis
max at alcyone.com
Mon Dec 23 09:26:05 EST 2002
QOTW: "I think this Knuth guy might have been onto something ;-)."
curiousguyd at hotmail.com
"[S]ource code [is] a *liability*, not an asset." Cameron Laird
"I think the world would probably be a better place if everybody had a
blow-up doll to talk to. ;-)" Skip Montanaro
Articles and threads
An innocent question about garbage collection results in words of
warning concerning the unnecessary reliance of implementation
details in particular Python implementations (e.g., CPython
vs. Jython finalization):
http://groups.google.com/groups?threadm=3E0649D0.B5BEF659%40alcyone.com
http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=mailman.1040567069.10784.python-list%40python.org
Python--especially by way of salstat--does statistics.
http://groups.google.com/groups?th=b8b5acf55fb2026e
Manuel M. Garcia sums up the Python vs. Lisp tirades and community
competition that tends to spawn off large threads:
http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=l8u90v0v3mr7hrvun3hp3l7h3rccsuh9m2%404ax.com
An important thread highlights modules far less well-known than
they deserve.
http://groups.google.com/groups?th=1b14c868ac5aa327
Software
A release of Python 2.2.1 for DOS has been made available:
http://members.lycos.co.uk/bdeck
Thwander version 2.29 has been released:
http://www.tundraware.com/Software/twander/
Resources
Thanos Vassilakis has written an article outlining how to do CGI
session handling with pso.session:
http://www.scriptfoundry.com/modules/pso/doc/session-cgi.html
Jarno Virtanen thinks hard about what it means to sort in Python.
http://pythonowns.blogspot.com/2002_12_15_pythonowns_archive.html#86269685
Meetings and announcements
EuroPython 2003 will be held in Charleroi, Belgium, in 2003 June
25-27; details are forthcoming:
http://www.europython.org/
PyCon DC 2003's Call for Papers has been extended until 15 January.
You, too, can "Popularize Python".
http://www.python.org/pycon
Useless Python is looking for volunteers to contribute:
http://uselesspython.com/
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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://www.python.org/dev/summary/
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 Business Forum "further[s] the interests of companies
that base their business on ... Python."
http://www.python-in-business.org
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
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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