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

[Mike Meyer]

QOTW:  "We will perhaps eventually be writing only small modules which are
identified by name as they are used to build larger ones, so that devices
like indentation, rather than delimiters, might become feasible for
expressing local structure in the source language." --Donald E. Knuth,
"Structured Programming with goto Statements", Computing Surveys, Vol 6
No 4, Dec. 1974

"I never got beyond starting the data-structures in C++, I never got
beyond seeing how it would work in Scheme. I finished it in one
Python-filled afternoon, and discovered the idea sucked big time. I was
glad I did it in Python, because it only cost me one afternoon to discover
the idea sucks."  -- Moshe Zadka,


Discussion:
    It seems several people are working on animated debuggers for Python.
        http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=9s7ba.2698%244q6.305236@news20.bellglobal.com

    A comment by Guido on the dev list sparks a discussion on the
    distinction between lists and tuples, and the proper uses for
    same.
        http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=mailman.1047438022.6224.python-list@python.org

    The question of how to move large data through a non-blocking
    socket efficiently is asked, and answered.
        http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=b4sc7c%24nel%241@localhost.localdomain

    The standard question about floating point accuracy wanders into
    which bases are best for representing fractions.
        http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=4378fa6f.0303141540.de857b8@posting.google.com

    A comparison of single-user databases results from a question of
    the same.
        http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=3E737FA3.51AB478E@easystreet.com


Announcements:
    wxPython 2.4.0.5 is a cross platform GUI toolkit.
        http://wxPython.org/
	
    twander 3.134 is a macro-programmable file system browser.
        http://www.tundraware.com/Software/twander

    Eric 3.1 is a Python IDE.
        http://www.die-offenbachs.de/detlev/eric3.html

    omniORB 4.0.1 and omniORBpy 2.1 are high performance CORBA ORBs and
    a python interface to the same.
        http://omniorb.sourceforge.net/


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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

    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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