Dr. Dobb's Python-URL! - weekly Python news and links (Feb 3)
Mike Meyer
mwm at mired.org
Mon Feb 3 09:09:54 EST 2003
QOTW: "I'd say that Python's greatest strength is that it took me about
two months to become as competent at Python as I was after two years of
C++." Mark Charsley
"I think it a pretty firm rule that the more experienced and talented a
programmer is, the LESS likely s/he is to claim her code is bug free."
David Mertz
Discussion:
Excellent concepts for Exception use appear throughout a recent thread.
http://groups.google.com/groups?frame=left&th=a5f4f5dcf8ec3ab
A discussion of the ways one can test python code for errors before
running it.
http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=jpsl3vcbb4tlv97l7bi2319238hkl3rdol@4ax.com
A question about accepting both sequences and strings as a
non-sequence evolves into a discussion of performance, interfaces, and
what exactly it means to be a string.
http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=m4di3v4koufdbf4e2pvsanegli2kqt48ch@4ax.com
A discussion of how to do translate common Perl idioms to Python.
http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=c42e062e.0301291531.6a656e4@posting.google.com
A discussion of the ways that static variables can be simulated in Python.
http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=mailman.1043870531.24472.python-list@python.org
Announcements:
KORBA - .Net for python went through several upgrades in the last week.
http://www.gadgil.net/DotNetWrapperForPython.htm
Twisted 1.0.2 - a framework for building internet server and client
applications.
http://www.twistedmatrix.com/
Blog with (CGI) Python: Pyblosxom 0.6.
http://sf.net/projects/pyblosxom/
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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.*
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