Dr. Dobb's Python-URL! - weekly Python news and links (Jun 16)

[Steven Taschuk]

QOTW:  "I haven't tested this particular example, but I doubt that it
contains more than two or three fundamental errors."
                                            -- Jacob Smullyan

"Great design is not about making no compromises, it's about making
just the RIGHT compromises. That's why it's never easy."  Alex Martelli


Discussion:
    Lulu of the Lotus-Eaters explains the etymological origins of the
    term "list comprehension" in set theory.
        <http://groups.google.com/groups?th=c803c13ddfa9cf19#link4>

    A PEP frenzy begins!  PEP 317 is submitted and rejected.  (It
    proposed eliminating some forms of 'raise' statement.)
        <http://www.python.org/peps/pep-0317.html>

    The frenzy continues!  Kevin Smith revises his PEP 318, which
    proposes a special syntax for "function decorators" such as
    classmethod().
        <http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=20030610082514442-0400%40braeburn.themorgue.org>

    Michel Pelletier submits PEP 319, which proposes "synchronize" and
    "asynchronize" keywords.  Who will the frenzy take next?  Find out
    next week!
        <http://www.python.org/peps/pep-0319.html>

Announcements:
    David Mertz's _Text Processing in Python_ is now in stores!
        <http://gnosis.cx/TPiP/>

    GDmodule 0.42: Connects the popular GD (graphics drawing) library
    by Thomas Bouttel with Python.
        <http://newcenturycomputers.net/projects/gdmodule.html>

    Pygame 1.5.6: This is a release test that needs much testing
    before the big 1.6.
        <http://www.pygame.org/>

    PyKota v1.08: A centralized, full featured, internationalized, and
    easily extensible, print quota and accounting solution for CUPS
    and LPRng.
        <http://www.librelogiciel.com/software/PyKota/>

    PyPov-0.0.1: A relatively simple framework for making povray files.
        <http://arrowtheory.com/software/python/pypov/index.html>


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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 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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