Python-URL! - Weekly Python News and Links (May 12)
May 13, 2003, 11:30 (0 Talkback[s])
QOTW: "If your code is truly worth protecting from competent prying
eyes, don't distribute it [...]" -- Alex Martelli
"I can't recommend enough that, if you're going to design user interfaces,
you educate yourself about what good user interface is ..." -- Jeff Epler
http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=mailman.1052231735.16963.python-list%40python.org
Discussion:
An elegant puzzle-solving framework by Raymond Hettinger, suitable
for many kinds of graph traversal problem.
<http://users.rcn.com/python/download/puzzle.py>
Tim Peters shows the application of a design principle -- syntaxes
should not be multiplied beyond necessity -- to the question of
symbolic names in regular expressions.
<http://groups.google.com/groups?th=10563ebf1b868076#link2>
Vincent Bernat, answering his own question, points out the PyPgSQL
module as an example of how to use exception hierarchies from C.
<http://groups.google.com/groups?th=7d9594a33458839e#link2>
David Mertz describes a possible book on Python metaprogramming,
asks whether he should write it, and is answered with a
many-voiced "yes".
<http://groups.google.com/groups?th=79fbd1c604dd7ac8>
Announcements:
The Boston Area Python Interest Group now has a mailing list.
<http://wingide.com/mailman/listinfo/boston-pig>
DISLIN 8.1: A high-level and easy to use plotting library for
displaying data as curves, bar graphs, pie charts, 3D-colour
plots, surfaces, contours and maps.
<http://www.dislin.de/>
M2Crypto 0.10: A cryptographic library. This release updates to
OpenSSL 0.9.7a and provides AES-128/192/256.
<http://www.post1.com/home/ngps/m2>
mxODBC Zope Database Adapter 1.0.5: Allows you to easily connect
your Zope installation to just about any database backend.
<http://www.egenix.com/>
nohtml 1.10: This program removes HTML attachments from email.
<http://www.tundraware.com/Software/nohtml/>
py2exe 0.3.4: py2exe is a distutils extension to build Windows
executables from python scripts.
<http://starship.python.net/crew/theller/py2exe/>
Twisted 1.0.5: Twisted is an event-driven framework for building
networked clients and servers.
<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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