Dr. Dobb's Python-URL! - weekly Python news and links (May 1)

[Peter Otten]

QOTW: "I have a certain fondness for the first over-100-lines module
I wrote for Python" - Alex Martelli

"Programmers should be paid by the amount of code that they avoid
writing." - Michael P. Soulier


    If you know Python basics but managed to get along without creating your 
    own classes, have a look at Jay Parlar's contribution to the Unofficial 
    Python Tutorial Wiki:
        http://pytut.infogami.com/node11-baseline.html
    
    There's a reason you cannot set attributes on object [the baseclass of all 
    new-style classes] instances:
        http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/msg/8086116fa893c283
    
    Jason Huggins plays with dot notation for domain-specific languages:
        http://www.jrandolph.com/blog/?p=29
    
    The competitors for non-web based templating systems are many:
        http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/browse_frm/thread/51d5694377a5d1a6/df98a68c5718deec?tvc=1
    
    While web frameworks written in Python abound, WSGI as a low-level
    interface between web servers and web applications gets BDFL blessing
    and a reference implementation may make it into Python 2.5:
        http://www.artima.com/weblogs/viewpost.jsp?thread=158191

    For still more breaking news on Web frameworks, see:
        http://radar.oreilly.com/archives/2005/12/ruby_book_sales_surpass_python.html
	http://pylonshq.com/
    
    You may have to look into a man page to learn more about the details
    of format strings:
        http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/browse_frm/thread/323c70d603946f84/7afd45a984b88ae5?tvc=1
    
    'Want an "open source graphical design environment" for Tkinter?
    Rapyd-Tk bills itself that way:
        http://home.cogeco.ca/~rapyd                                            

    Kevin Simmons finds a way to read two characters from stdin without
    resorting to curses:
        http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/msg/faa76bb532195fd8?hl=en
    
    Steve Holden releases his PyCon 2006 tutorials "Using Databases in
    Python" and "An Introduction to wxPython" under a Creative Commons
    license:
        http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/msg/b3fb85114fcd1f32
    

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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

    Python411 indexes "podcasts ... to help people learn Python ..."
    Updates appear more-than-weekly:
        http://www.awaretek.com/python/index.html

    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

    Although unmaintained since 2002, the Cetus collection of Python
    hyperlinks retains a few gems.
        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://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0042/

    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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