Dr. Dobb's Python-URL! - weekly Python news and links (Feb 6)

[Magnus Lycka]

QOTW:  "Excessive cleverness can lead to unmaintainable code.  So can
excessive stupidity." -- Alan Morgan

"Also Python code is pretty bare-metal, so that file.write or
socket.write go to the syscall immediately. Try that in Java and you'll
find 30 layers of complex abstractions for doubtful benefits and obvious
slowness." --  Giovanni Bajo


    Want to talk at the Python 14 Conference? Proposals are due Feb. 13th.
        http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/browse_frm/thread/4778f0e488118d6c
    
    Need fuzzy lookups? It turns out the standard library has what you need!
        http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/browse_frm/thread/43f3ef0bf88f40d2
    
    Metaclasses don't have to be so difficult...
        http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/browse_frm/thread/4be7f1d3f1b3f7df

    ActiveState goes solo.  Again.
        http://blogs.activestate.com/activestate/2006/01/activestate_to_.html

    "Nokia ... announced [an agreement] to release the source code for its
    Python for S60 Platform software package ..." by way of SourceForge.
        http://www.ameinfo.com/76819.html             

    If you want a computer with fewer keys than a mobile phone, you can now
    hack away in you favourite programming language on your Apple iPod!
        http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/browse_frm/thread/cddcdfb99c612213
    
    Yet another program is saved from unwarranted use of regular expressions!
        http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/browse_frm/thread/32129018480c0121
    
    Yes, it's feasable to write Python DJing software. Hopefully, the OP
    realized that the answer was yes before the thread turned into
    pseudopilosophical drivel.
        http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/browse_frm/thread/fb73a7701faf10ea
    
    This Object-Oriented stuff takes time to grasp...
        http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/browse_frm/thread/7e34915a76fa8893
        http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/browse_frm/thread/869e448765ea4b98
    
    Why make a code generator when you have Python?
        http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/browse_frm/thread/dfd984102f5f29ed
    

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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.

    For far, FAR more Python reading than any one mind should
    absorb, much of it quite interesting, several pages index
    much of the universe of Pybloggers.
	http://lowlife.jp/cgi-bin/moin.cgi/PythonProgrammersWeblog
        http://www.planetpython.org/
        http://mechanicalcat.net/pyblagg.html

    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

    Steve Bethard, Tim Lesher, and Tony Meyer continue the marvelous
    tradition early borne by Andrew Kuchling, Michael Hudson and Brett
    Cannon 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/

    Python Success Stories--from air-traffic control to on-line
    match-making--can inspire you or decision-makers to whom you're
    subject with a vision of what the language makes practical.
        http://www.pythonology.com/success

    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

    Kurt B. Kaiser publishes a weekly report on faults and patches.
        http://www.google.com/groups?as_usubject=weekly%20python%20patch
       
    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.

    del.icio.us presents an intriguing approach to reference commentary.
    It already aggregates quite a bit of Python intelligence.
        http://del.icio.us/tag/python

    *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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