Dr. Dobb's Python-URL! - weekly Python news and links (May 10)

[John J Lee]

QOTW:  "...simple genexps will work fine anyway almost all the time, so
it doesn't appear to matter much that devious uses will have nightmarish
semantics." -- Tim Peters on Generator Expressions

"It looks like ... a developer's cookbook (eg. the O'Reilly Python
cookbook) but with less Reilly and more "Oh?"."
-- Paul Boddie, on the user-commented PHP documentation


    Andrew Bennetts discovers, without realising it, an obscure-but-useful
    detail of Python's argument passing rules:
        http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=mailman.262.1083743267.25742.python-list@python.org

    Thomas Heller explains how to get all your Python/win32 code working
    in debug mode:
        http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=mailman.349.1083956775.25742.python-list@python.org

    PEP 328 ('Imports: Multi-Line and Absolute/Relative') still isn't dead:
        http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=mailman.191.1083525640.25742.python-list@python.org
        http://www.python.org/peps/pep-0328.html

    Scott Archer and Uche Ogbuji rediscover the instability of Python client
    implementations of SOAP and WSDL:
        http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/webservices/library/ws-pyth17.html

    PyRapi 0.4 provides an improved, but still simple, Python interface to
    the libraries of the SynCE project
	http://synce.sourceforge.net/

    PyZine upcoming articles:
        http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=mailman.1083816063.22766.clpa-moderators@python.org

    SciPy 2004 Conference - Python for Scientific Computing:
        http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=mailman.305.1083846542.25742.python-list@python.org

    Greg Ewing announces Pyrex 0.9.2 (quickly followed by 0.9.2.1):
    Flexible wrappers and extensions without the boring C code.
        http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=mailman.1083681543.24525.clpa-moderators@python.org
        http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=mailman.1083781203.18146.clpa-moderators@python.org
        http://www.cosc.canterbury.ac.nz/~greg/python/Pyrex/

    Detleve Offenbach releases eric3 3.4.2, a Python IDE written in Python
        http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=mailman.1084027143.6394.clpa-moderators@python.org

    EuroPython is less than a month away.  Many--but not all--talks
    have already been accepted.
	http://www.europython.org
        http://www.europython.org/conferences/epc2004/info/talks/acceptedTalksOverview

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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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