Python-URL! - Weekly Python News and Links (March 10)
Mar 11, 2003, 05:00 (0 Talkback[s])
QOTW: "I don't need coding advice, I need a psychiatrist" -- Paul Moore
"Visual BASIC uses me" -- Dennis Lee Bieber
"I'm not real sure how to work with a language that doesn't fight me tooth
and nail." -- Nilesta
Discussion:
A discussion of the whether the re module should have an "and"
operator.
http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=3E6270DC.3060904@tiscali.co.uk
An attempt to explain generators leads to a description of
iterators, iterables, and generators.
http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=mailman.1046719506.16814.python-list@python.org
A question about iterating over a class leads to a discussion of how
special methods differ from normal methods in new-style classes.
http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=mailman.1046724605.2044.python-list@python.org
A question on performance differences across platforms leads to
discussion and measurements of different Python versions, among
other things.
http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=3E660EB3.4065D81F@engcorp.com
Announcements:
The PEP-308 vote will have completed by the time this is posted.
http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=882b0a41.0303020225.3caf0334@posting.google.com
wxPython 2.4.0.4 is now available. wxPython is a popular
cross-platform gui toolkit.
http://wxpython.org/
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Everything 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
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 newly-revitalized newsgroup at least 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 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 has replaced the Python Consortium
as an independent nexus of activity
http://www.python.org/psf/
Cetus does much of the same
http://www.cetus-links.org/oo_python.html
Python FAQTS
http://python.faqts.com/
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@pythonjournal.com and editor@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
Tenth International Python Conference
http://www.python10.org
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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