Python-URL! - weekly Python news and links (Mar 23)

[Cameron Laird]

QOTW:  "So far as I know, that actually just means that the test suite
is
insufficient." - Peter Seebach, when an application passes all its
tests
   http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.lisp/msg/29aff9595bb0eac0


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2010,
in fact; "Python-URL!" has been dormant all that time.  It looks as
though
we're re-activating now, though, and the next month should make
apparent
whether we've returned to our roughly-weekly schedule.  A few minor
structural changes are afoot; likely to be of broadest interest is
that
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   PyCon2011 had IDE news that made the trade press:
 
http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Application-Development/Microsoft-Launches-Python-Tools-for-Visual-Studio-Beta-638994/?kc=EWKNLITA03152011STR3

   Kirby Urner reflects on the virtues of our built-in battery tester:
       http://mail.python.org/pipermail/edu-sig/2011-February/010179.html

   regex is important.  It's also widely mis-understood, and often
   results in little more than frustration.  This conversation about
   regex's special characters ends happily:
       http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/browse_thread/thread/e8ea8cc833aebac2

   While file extensions are among the many topics Python has handled
   deftly for over two decades now, the best handling continues to
   update occasionally:
       http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/browse_thread/thread/6b166a07312c2c12


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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

   Just beginning with Python?  This page is a great place to start:
       http://wiki.python.org/moin/BeginnersGuide/Programmers

   The Python Papers aims to publish "the efforts of Python
enthusiasts":
       http://pythonpapers.org/
   The Python Magazine is a technical monthly devoted to Python:
       http://pythonmagazine.com

   Readers have recommended the "Planet" site:
       http://planet.python.org

   comp.lang.python.announce announces new Python software.  Be
   sure to scan this newsgroup weekly.
       http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.python.announce/topics

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

   The Python Package Index catalogues packages.
       http://www.python.org/pypi/

   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/donations/

   The Summary of Python Tracker Issues is an automatically generated
   report summarizing new bugs, closed ones, and patch submissions.
       http://search.gmane.org/?author=status%40bugs.python.org&group=gmane.comp.python.devel&sort=date

   nullege is an interesting search Web application, with the
intelligence
   to distinguish between Python code and comments.  It provides what
   appear to be relevant results, and demands neither Java nor CSS be
   enabled:
       http://www.nullege.com

   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://code.activestate.com/recipes/langs/python/

   Many Python conferences around the world are in preparation.
   Watch this space for links to them.

   SciPyTip is a high-quality daily (!) tip for the numerically-
   inclined:
       http://twitter.com/SciPyTip

   Among several Python-oriented RSS/RDF feeds available, see:
       http://www.python.org/channews.rdf
   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/

   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

   At least one of the Python magazines is explicitly multilingual:
       http://www.python.org/ar/

   Enjoy the *Python Magazine*.
       http://pymag.phparch.com/

   *Py: the Journal of the Python Language*
       http://www.pyzine.com

   Python articles regularly appear at IBM DeveloperWorks:
       http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/search/searchResults.jsp?searchSite=dW&searchScope=dW&encodedQuery=python&rankprofile=8

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