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/
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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.
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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
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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