Dr. Dobb's Python-URL! - weekly Python news and links (Sep 30)

[Cameron Laird]

QOTW:  "One can always write very sparse or very dense lines of code that
break the model, but in-the-large programmers do not normally do that.
They tend to write code in lines that fit easily in their head and, because
of this, one line of code is pretty much comparable to another."
Jonathan Hogg

"Why are there always jobs for salesmen?"  Stephen Satchell 


    Jack Diederich makes high-performance Permutations, Combinations,
    and other probability and statistics constructs available through
    SourceForge.
	http://probstat.sourceforge.net/

    Puffin makes automation nice.
        http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/opensource/library/os-puffin2.html 
    Pexpect fills in Puffin's most severe lack.
	http://sourceforge.net/projects/pexpect/

    Uche Ogbuji introdues Python's XML and XML-RPC capabilities, and PyXML.
	http://www.xml.com/pub/a/2002/09/18/py.html
	http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/library/ws-pyth10.html 
	http://www.xml.com/pub/a/2002/09/25/py.html

    September brought another round of attention to CP4E in the EDU-SIG group
        http://mail.python.org/pipermail/edu-sig/2002-September/thread.html

    Think in Tkinter.
	http://home.att.net/~stephen_ferg/thinking_in_tkinter/index.html

    Martin v. Löwis gives background to management of patches and
    contributions in the Python project.
        http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-list/2002-September/122988.html
    
    Blog with Python.
	http://www.awaretek.com/nowak/kaa.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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