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

Emile van Sebille python-url at phaseit.net
Tue Dec 30 08:28:19 EST 2003


QOTW:  There are probably many less productive ways to spend your time 
than studying Mark Pilgrim's code.
  -- Skip Montanaro

QOTW:  'enumerate'...?  As in, enumerate(n*[0]) ... ?
  -- Alex Martelli, a complete response quoted!


    Stephen Ferg announces a Python Language Reference, his produce a 
    complete, alphabetized reference of all of Python's language features.=20
        http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=b16e4ef7.0312260911.42e26052@posting.google.com
    
    Ralf Wieseler gets help getting tkinter going on Mac OS X
        http://groups.google.com/groups?threadm=bsedqg$rf$00$1@news.t-online.com
    
    Aahz asks if anyone is using Tkinter and OS X 10.3 and hears that it 
    does work, even though that may mean it can be made to work.
        http://groups.google.com/groups?threadm=bs7pt0$a98$1@panix1.panix.com
    
    Kamuela Franco asks for general information on socket programming in 
    Python.
        http://groups.google.com/groups?threadm=KdzGb.23400$NZ1.18286@nwrddc02.gnilink.net
    
    Ryan Spencer gets help with his pygame based pong test.
        http://groups.google.com/groups?threadm=pan.2003.12.22.07.59.49.651699@earthlink.net
    
    Andrei is looking for an appropriate embedded storage mechanism to 
    support fulltext search for messages in a forum.
        http://groups.google.com/groups?threadm=21bb8d55.0312230435.49cad73c@posting.google.com
    
    Matt Whiteley wants to update the A record on a DNS server using Python.
        http://groups.google.com/groups?threadm=OVkGb.5263$Y45.175@news-binary.blueyonder.co.uk
    
    Andre Brightway asks about non-X based linux GUIs.
        http://groups.google.com/groups?threadm=88f9e356.0312162305.58718893@posting.google.com
    
    Bill Sneddon gets tips on using Google's API from within python.
        http://groups.google.com/groups?threadm=brv88k$kkq$1@ngspool-d02.news.aol.com
    
    Art Decco asks for help creating a little database-backed CGI 
    application using Python on a server with no real database available.
        http://groups.google.com/groups?threadm=UQRFb.115936$8y1.365571@attbi_s52
    
    Rene Pijlman seeks clarification on how delegation works in python.
        http://groups.google.com/groups?threadm=jr5muvcajluhq4u41nk0fduj99kfjdaqjb@4ax.com
    
    John J. Lee gets feedback on the naming of iterators.
        http://groups.google.com/groups?threadm=87fzfch0bu.fsf@pobox.com
    
    Ahmad wants to print Arabic characters right to left.
        http://groups.google.com/groups?threadm=3014031e.0312220305.c38ffa3@posting.google.com
    
    Will Stuyvesant asks what you would write if you have the time and the 
    money to start a new project in Python.
        http://groups.google.com/groups?threadm=cb035744.0312261236.11d785ac@posting.google.com
    
    John J. Lee announces the initial release of mechanize 0.0.1a, providing 
    stateful programmatic web browsing after Andy Lester's Perl module.
        http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=mailman.1072191603.27380.clpa-moderators@python.org
    
    ... and the first beta release of pullparser, a simple "pull API" for 
    HTML parsing, after Perl's HTML::TokeParser.
        http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=mailman.1072191603.27381.clpa-moderators@python.org
    
    Adam Souzis announces Rx4RDF and Rhizome 0.1.3.  Rx4RDF is used for 
    building RDF-based applications and web sites, and Rhizome is a 
    Wiki-like content management and delivery system built on Rx4RDF
        http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=mailman.1072275003.22292.clpa-moderators@python.org
    
    The revised and updated 2nd edition of "Learning Python" by Mark Lutz 
    and David Asher is now available from O'Reilly.
        http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/lpython2/


========================================================================
Everything Python-related 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
    marvelous 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 intelligently summarizing
    action on the python-dev mailing list once every other week.
	http://www.python.org/dev/summary/

    The Python Package Index catalogues packages.
        http://www.python.org/pypi/

    The somewhat older Vaults of Parnassus ambitiously collects references
    to all sorts of 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/

    Among several Python-oriented RSS/RDF feeds available are
	http://www.python.org/channews.rdf
	http://bootleg-rss.g-blog.net/pythonware_com_daily.pcgi
	http://python.de/backend.php
    For more, see
	http://www.syndic8.com/feedlist.php?ShowMatch=python&ShowStatus=all
    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

    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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