Dr. Dobb's Python-URL! - weekly Python news and links (Jun 17)
Emile van Sebille
emile at fcfw.fenx.com
Mon Jun 17 16:30:17 EDT 2002
QOTW: "People will inevitably associate me with my father, but I would
not have anyone believe that I am trading on the name Edison. I would
rather have you know me merely as the result of one of my father's
earlier experiments." - Charles Edison (son of the inventor), during
his campaign for governor of New Jersey in 1940
http://theliterarylink.com/quotes.html
"Sprinting is intense and exhilarating. Everybody bounces questions and
ideas off of each other while sitting in front of real, evolving code.
You learn about coding practices such as unit tests and factoring
interface descriptions, as well as real Zope 3 component architecture
code. But far more interesting is the human interaction." -- Paul Everitt,
quoted from http://europython.zope.nl/interviews/entries/paul_everitt
Happy Father's Day - Guido's First! Watch for photos at:
http://www.python.org/~guido/orlijn/#latest
Collin Monahan asks about the nature of lists:
http://groups.google.com/groups?threadm=mailman.1023833476.10249.python-list@python.org
Fabio Corneti wants a way to create final methods, and Jeff Epler
shows one way to do it:
http://groups.google.com/groups?threadm=mailman.1023812475.3715.python-list@python.org
Edward K Ream announces leo, a programmer's editor and a flexible
browser for projects, programs, classes or data. Leo clarifies
design, coding, debugging, testing and maintenance.
http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=mailman.1023895323.9169.clpa-moderators@python.org
Jerzy Karczmarczuk provides a different answer to the question of
creating executables from python source by pointing us to an interview
of Guido:
http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=3CFDF148.AA2035FF@info.unicaen.fr
Prabhu Ramachandran announces the availability of the MayaVi Data
Visualizer version 1.2. MayaVi is a free, easy to use, scientific
data visualizer, written in Python and using VTK, the Visualization
Toolkit. One significant change is a license change from GPL/LGPL
to BSD.
http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=mailman.1023914707.18194.python-list@python.org
"You knew the job was dangerous when you took it, Fred."
James Rowe asks about documentation on __subclasses__...
http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=a9bcagho74.22t.jimrowe@optilink.com
...a question still open in the in-progress Thinking in Python book...
http://www.mindview.net/Books/TIPython/BackTalk/A_251
...but I did find some documentation (thanks google), including
another new-class built in method, mro (method resolution order) at:
http://cvs.astro-wise.org:4711/__builtin__.html#type
Neil Schemenauer releases Version 0.1 of the Sancho unit testing
framework, the unit test module in use at the MEMS Exchange:
http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=mailman.1024086967.9147.clpa-moderators@python.org
Anoop is looking for a way to create a systray icon on win32 using
tkinter. Interesting question -- any answers?
http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=mailman.1023950718.20009.python-list@python.org
Greg Ewing is working to speed things up with pyrex release 0.3.
Pyrex is a new language for writing Python extension modules.
http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=mailman.1023502562.5896.clpa-moderators@python.org
Jean-Sebastien Bolduc wants to understand about import * and namespaces...
http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=56e1eff0.0206131437.4ca8ed9e@posting.google.com
...prompting Tim Delaney to point to section 1.1 at
http://py-howto.sourceforge.net/doanddont/doanddont.html
Aahz reminds us that a failed import doesn't get better with repeated
imports...
http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=aeat13$pli$1@panix1.panix.com
... and questions a class/type unification bu^h^hfea^h^h^h... well, a
'gotcha:
http://groups.google.com/groups?threadm=aeau48$111$1@panix1.panix.com
Neal Josephson announces that Version 2.1 of the Hap python debugger
and IDE has been made available for download as source and binary zip
files at:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/hapdebugger
PythonCard, a GUI construction kit for building cross-platform desktop
applications on Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux, moves to version 0.6.7.
New additions include chat, webserver, pictureViewer, slideshow, and
webgrabber. See Kevin Atlis' announcement at:
http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=gyoO8.45$YM3.33091@news.uswest.net
Wow. Check out Dave's (age 12) request for help. Note particularly
the responses given... and more particularly the responses _not_ given.
It's good to here...
http://groups.google.com/groups?threadm=Xns922D5FE7B72D8duncanrcpcouk%40127.0.0.1
...and Duncan Booth provides a link to the LiveWires Python course,
intended to teach the Python programming language to people who have
never programmed before:
http://www.livewires.org.uk/python/index.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.
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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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