Python-URL! - Weekly Python News and Links (April 29)
Apr 30, 2003, 05:00 (1 Talkback[s])
QOTW: "But I like to [polish] the code while it does not yet exist, or
make hundreds of new options DURING the programming. That's why many of
my programs never see the daylight :)" -- Dino Levy
"For a long time, the industry labored under the illusion that if we
could all agree on One Big API then we'd have interoperability.
Examples have included Posix, X11, OLE/COM/DCOM, CORBA, DCE, OpenDoc,
and the list goes on; and it's never, ever, ever worked (with the
single exception of the "sockets" library for IP networking)." --
Tim Bray http://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/200x/2003/03/24/XMLisOK
Discussion:
Techniques for making small stand-alone versions of Python
programs.
<<A HREF="http://groups.google.com/groups?th=3dac0b6a85d8c13a>">http://groups.google.com/groups?th=3dac0b6a85d8c13a>;
Jack Diederich exhibits two real-life uses for metaclasses:
registering classes with a factory, and named prototypes.
<<A HREF="http://groups.google.com/groups?th=296a0181247593f3>">http://groups.google.com/groups?th=296a0181247593f3>;
Jeff Epler describes some common uses of C++ references, and shows
how the same problems are usually solved in Python.
<<A HREF="http://groups.google.com/groups?th=5c54ac4ec68aeafa#link6>">http://groups.google.com/groups?th=5c54ac4ec68aeafa#link6>;
Tim Peters comments on reverse-engineering a mysterious 48-bit
floating-point number format, illustrating the complexity of the
subject.
<<A HREF="http://groups.google.com/groups?th=6a220801e92e14e#link8>">http://groups.google.com/groups?th=6a220801e92e14e#link8>;
In the middle of a tongue-in-cheek discussion of overloadable
short-circuiting operators, a speculative notion for implementing
microthreads (inter alia) by turning all functions into generators.
<<A HREF="http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=mailman.1051284157.17376.python-list%40python.org>">http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=mailman.1051284157.17376.python-list%40python.org>;
Announcements:
Python 2.3b1: The first beta release of Python 2.3.
<<A HREF="http://www.python.org/2.3/>">http://www.python.org/2.3/>;
Matplotlib 0.1: Matplotlib's goal is to make publication-quality
plotting easy in Python, with a syntax familiar to Matlab users.
<<A HREF="http://nitace.bsd.uchicago.edu:8080/matplotlib>">http://nitace.bsd.uchicago.edu:8080/matplotlib>;
mxODBC Zope Database Adapter 1.0.4: Allows you to easily connect
your Zope installation to just about any database backend on the
market today.
<<A HREF="http://www.egenix.com/>">http://www.egenix.com/>;
Pyro 3.2: Pyro is an advanced and powerful Distributed Object
Technology system written entirely in Python, that is designed to
be very easy to use.
<<A HREF="http://pyro.sourceforge.net/>">http://pyro.sourceforge.net/>;
Sybase DB-API module 0.36: The Sybase module provides a Python
interface to the Sybase relational database system. It supports
all of the Python Database API, version 2.0 with extensions.
<<A HREF="http://www.object-craft.com.au/projects/sybase/>">http://www.object-craft.com.au/projects/sybase/>;
Twisted 1.0.4: Twisted is an event-driven framework for building
networked clients and servers. It contains a powerful and simple
networking core, a full-featured suite of interoperable protocols,
among them a powerful web server and applications framework.
<<A HREF="http://www.twistedmatrix.com/>">http://www.twistedmatrix.com/>;
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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
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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