Dr. Dobb's Python-URL! - weekly Python news and links (Mar 19)

[Cameron Laird]

QOTW:  "Well, to do what I've done so far in Java would have taken at least
5 and probably more like 10 times the code I've written.  A simple yet
decent TCP chat server in about 30 lines of code is something I never
considered possible before looking at Python." -- Qp
    http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=k4y0c.7173%24ED1.3250%40fe03.usenetserver.com

"Python is built on a small set of entirely uninteresting control structures,
designed to lead you into a state of mind where you think more about the
logic of your code than about whether you can whip something off as a
one-liner or obfuscate it to show your brilliance in comparison to lesser
programmers.  ;-)" -- Peter Hansen
    http://groups.google.com/groups?frame=left&th=fdff00501fcb3fcb

    Web service in one line.
	http://altis.pycs.net/2004/03/14.html#a96

    El FAQ de Python es disponible para los que leen espanol.
	http://www.taniquetil.com.ar/facundo/python/index.html

    Robert Brewer solves simple directed or non-directed graphs
    with Python.
	http://www.aminus.org/rbre/python/index.html

    Tkinter acquires up its own mailing list and Wiki.
        http://tkinter.unpythonic.net/wiki/Tkinter

    Ian Bicking's serious thoughts about interfaces and semantics
    help those considering Python in comparison with, say, Smalltalk
    or Java or Eiffel.
	http://blog.colorstudy.com/ianb/weblog/2004/03/14.html#P73

    libxml2 is a good thing, but not an easy thing.  Get it right.
	http://www.vandervossen.net/2004/03/libxml_python

    If you intend to work with the Open Directory Project, be sure
    to read other consumers' comments, not just the advertisements
    of the site.
	http://groups.google.com/groups?frame=left&th=14407ee04d67f494


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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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