Dr. Dobb's Python-URL! - weekly Python news and links (Apr 28)

Wed Apr 28 10:34:19 EDT 2004

QOTW:  "The site that I worked on spent TWO MILLION U.S. DOLLARS on its web
server hardware.  OK, it used Java servlets that are even slower than Python,
but you have to understand that there's a point after which you can no longer
pretend that hardware is free."  -- Paul Rubin

"Monte Carlo sampling is no way to understand code." -- Gordon McMillan

    Martin v. Loewis clarifies what entities might "compete" with Python
	http://www.google.com/groups?selm=c4sqle%24ds%2403%241%40news.t-online.com

    Peter Otten determines to find the simplest way of automatically
    assigning instance attributes from an argument list
        http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=c6alei$hv4$05$1@news.t-online.com
        http://groups.google.com/groups?threadm=c6alei%24hv4%2405%241%40news.t-online.com

    Is application-level configuration worth its own "advanced ... parser
    and validator"?  Is working with*out* tconfpy any more sensible?  Give
    thanks to Tim Daneliuk
	http://www.tundraware.com/Software/tconfpy/

    A question from a Delphi user about getters and setters in Python
    elicits a good set of URLs on properties
        http://groups.google.com/groups?&threadm=407e402c%241%40newsflash.abo.fi

    The long-awaited SciPy 0.3 arrives
        http://groups.google.com/groups?&selm=mailman.880.1082583661.20120.python-list@python.org

    Alan Kennedy bravely works through a concrete example of management
    of Word-as-XML
        http://groups.google.com/groups?frame=left&th=fa888d67a6991cfd

    Python 2.4 is on its way
        http://python.org/peps/pep-0320.html

    Francois Pinard believes he improves on Guido's main() model
	http://groups.google.com/groups?frame=left&th=f94d0e366becbbca

    Michael Hudson Thinks Like a Pythonista about stacklessness,
    bytecodehacks, and more
	http://starship.python.net/crew/mwh/hacks/

    Ero Carrera's pydot interface to the graphviz graph visualization
    library (the "nodes and edges" kind of graph) is addictive
        http://dkbza.org/pydot.html

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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
    marvelous 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 newsgroup 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 intelligently 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 (PSF) has replaced the Python
    Consortium as an independent nexus of activity.  It has official
    responsibility for Python's development and maintenance. 
        http://www.python.org/psf/
    Among the ways you can support PSF is with a donation.
        http://www.python.org/psf/donate.html

    Cetus collects Python hyperlinks.
        http://www.cetus-links.org/oo_python.html

    Python FAQTS
        http://python.faqts.com/

    The Cookbook is a collaborative effort to capture useful and
    interesting recipes.
	http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/Cookbook/Python

    Among several Python-oriented RSS/RDF feeds available are
	http://www.python.org/channews.rdf
	http://bootleg-rss.g-blog.net/pythonware_com_daily.pcgi
	http://python.de/backend.php
    For more, see
	http://www.syndic8.com/feedlist.php?ShowMatch=python&ShowStatus=all
    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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