Dr. Dobb's Python-URL! - weekly Python news and links (Oct 22)

[Cameron Laird]

QOTW:  "In the context of storage, there are three types of applications ...:
relational databases, files and objects such as photographs, and system
backups that have to be easy to retrieve."  Mark Lewis, CTO of EMC
    http://techupdate.zdnet.com/techupdate/stories/main/0,14179,2914178,00.html  
"And surprisingly enough, I rarely use regular expressions any more.  There
are usually simpler and better ways of doing it for most problems."
    Max M Rasmussen, on his transition to Python 


    Any beginner knows that an interpreted language like Python is
    slow.  It requires expertise like Alex Martelli's to measure
    how slow, though ... or, wait a minute; that's not slow!  And
    beginners *should* know timeit.py.
	http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=kjBkb.313494%24R32.10342512%40news2.tin.it

    We often talk about Python's portability.  At the same time, 
    the language is capable at accessing platform-specific results.
    Tim Howarth provides a lucid example which lists all machines in
    an Active Directory domain.
	http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=2f3cef424c.tim%40worthy.demon.co.uk

    "Slithy is a library for creating animated PowerPoint-style 
    presentations using Python and OpenGL."
	http://isotropic.org/uw/slithy
    Dinu Gherman uses PythonPoint in much the same role.
	http://python.net/~gherman/Presentations.html

    The A-A-P project is a make replacement and extension written in Python.
    Part of the project is "Zimbu Awards" given to those who helped improving
    the project:  fame *and* real money.
        http://www.a-a-p.org/zimbu_award.html

    Yes, it can do *that*, too:  Peter Hansen's latest example of a
    Serious Program coded in Python is a "test-driven development framework
    for our embedded code."
	http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=3F90AA61.134755F%40engcorp.com

    In a thread nominally focused on multimedia and games, Jonathan P.
    quickly enumerates what's really salient in deploying desktop
    applications based on either Java or Python:  memory use,
    installation footprint, ...
	http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=bmm72h%24ngv3c%241%40ID-180326.news.uni-berlin.de

    Bengt Richter provides a module that "check[s] Python source for 
    syntax errors ..." and other dangers, as an existence proof that
    textual descriptions can be rendered into Python objects.
	http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=bmoc34%24nmo%240%40216.39.172.122

    Kyler Laird reports that PyStripchart is capable of "cool"
    demonstrations and more, for those with an interest in display
    of "time-sampled data in an interactive 'strip chart' form".
	http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=7lt261-t75.ln1%40jowls.lairds.org


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Everything Python-related 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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