Dr. Dobb's Python-URL! - weekly Python news and links (Jul 14)

[Irmen de Jong]

QOTW:  "I'll claim without proof that how mixed-type comparisons work
with Python classes is also beyond wizard prediction in all cases: the
implementation of comparison in Python is crushingly complicated."
                                            -- Tim Peters

"Honest to God, if it doesn't have coloured cells all over the place, then
they [the engineers] kind of stare at you like rabbits caught in the
headlights of an oncoming car."         -- Mark Carter


Discussion
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     While syntax coloring sounds nice, Mark VandeWettering shows
     negative issues of syntax coloring in editors.
         <http://groups.google.com/groups?threadm=slrnbh0p28.uj.wettering@keck.vandewettering.net>

     Aahz explains what threading is most often used for and why
     Python usually doesn't have a scalability problem here.
         <http://groups.google.com/groups?threadm=bemhsb$dgn$1@panix3.panix.com>

     Ian Bicking brings up Jason Orendorff's path module, starting a
     discussion about a different Python interface to the filesystem.
         <http://groups.google.com/groups?threadm=mailman.1057651032.22842.python-list@python.org>

     Bengt Richter and Peter Hansen use a helium-balloon metaphor while
     explaining Python's object naming principle.
         <http://groups.google.com/groups?threadm=3F0FD092.7D452008@engcorp.com>
	
     Paul Rubin takes a negative-for-Python - but arguably sound - stance in
     the Python versus PHP web-applications discussion.
         <http://groups.google.com/groups?threadm=7xisqagvjt.fsf@ruckus.brouhaha.com>

     Raymond Hettinger intrigues with the first episode of a series of
     mysterious Python puzzles.
         <http://groups.google.com/groups?threadm=UiOPa.3259$Y92.1224@nwrdny01.gnilink.net>


Announcements
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     Guido is moving to the US West Coast.  His devotion to Python 
     continues.
	 <http://www.python.org/~guido>

     Congratulations to ActiveAwards winners Mark Hammond, Uche Ogbuji,
     Mike Olson, and Martin von Loewis.
         <http://www.ActiveState.com/ActiveAwards>

     PortalTransforms 1.0a1, part of Archetypes, a framework
     for the development of new Content Types in Zope/CMF/Plone.
         <http://www.sourceforge.net/projects/archetypes/>

     wxPyPlot 1.1, an enhanced derivative version of wxPlotCanvas
     to provide simple lightweight plotting in wxPython.
         <http://www.cyberus.ca/~g_will/wxPython/wxpyplot.html>

     Adept, a Declarative, Eval-based Program Tester. It is
     an unit testing tool where you define test cases as tuples.
         <http://csciwww.etsu.edu/phil/samples/adept.htm>

     EmPy 3.0.3, a system for embedding Python expressions and
     statements in template text.
         <http://www.alcyone.com/pyos/empy/>

     PyObjC 1.01, a bridge between Python and Objective-C that allows
     full-featured Cocoa applications to be written in pure Python.
         <http://pyobjc.sourceforge.net/>

     Vb2py 0.1, a toolkit to aid in the conversion of Visual Basic
     projects to Python (using PythonCard).
         <http://vb2py.sourceforge.net>

     YAMI 2.1, a lightweight and portable infrastructure for
     message-oriented network communication.
         <http://www.maciejsobczak.com/prog/yami/>

     PyQwt 3.7, a set of Python bindings for the Qwt C++ class library.
     Qwt extends the Qt framework with widgets for scientific and
     engineering applications.
         <http://pyqwt.sourceforge.net/>

     SpamBayes 1.0a4, a Bayesian anti-spam filter.
         <http://spambayes.org/>

     Spyce 1.3.11, a server-side language that supports simple and efficient
     Python-based dynamic HTML generation.
         <http://spyce.sourceforge.net/>

     ReportLab toolkit 1.18, a dynamic PDF generating solution.
         <http://www.reportlab.com/toolkit/>


========================================================================
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 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/

    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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