Dr. Dobb's Python-URL! - weekly Python news and links (Feb 17)

Mike Meyer mwm at mired.org
Mon Feb 17 23:26:36 EST 2003


QOTW:  "OO is deliberatly non-trivial because otherwise programmers will be
jobless."  - Roman Suzi

"The problem is that, now that I know Python, I have lost any motivation to
learn C++ anymore ..."  - Michele Simionato


Discussion:
    The discussion of a possibly ternary operator - started last week -
    continued to dominate the list, with hilariouslymany spin-off threads.
	http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=mailman.1044638179.4983.python-list@python.org
	http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=mailman.1044678564.8549.python-list@python.org
	http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=b23c06%242s7%241@panix2.panix.com
	http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=b252d9%248ok%241@wheel2.two14.net
	http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=YUP1a.3080%24SB2.242@nwrddc03.gnilink.net
	http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=NoB1a.38756%24yb.2651655@twister.austin.rr.com
	http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=mailman.1045092479.10310.python-list@python.org
	http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=mailman.1045192739.6092.python-list@python.org

    There was a discussion of the best way to learn OO programming, with
    highlights on patterns.
	http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=3e4800b2_2@news.vo.lu

    Troy Melhase persists in summarizing PyPy activity.
	http://codespeak.net/pipermail/pypy-dev/2003q1/000471.html


Announcements:
    Webware 08. has been released. Webware provides a suite of Python components
    for developing Web applications.
	http://webware.sourceforge.net/

    There is now a Python API for accessing the Freenet anonymising,
    encrypting publishing and file sharing network.
	http://www.freenet.org.nz/pyFreenet

    There is a wiki for the DC 2003 PyCon.
	http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/moinmoin/PyCon
    

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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/

    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.*

Previous - (U)se the (R)esource, (L)uke! - messages are listed here:
  http://www.ddj.com/topics/pythonurl/         
  http://purl.org/thecliff/python/url.html (dormant)
or
  http://groups.google.com/groups?oi=djq&as_q=+Python-URL!&as_ugroup=comp.lang.python


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