Python-URL! - Weekly Python News and Links (August 12)
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QOTW: "Python is not a nanny. It's a language for consenting adults.
What you do with your classes is your business. If you use someone else's
classes, it is your responsibility to consider the sanity of the source --
and to test." -- Terry Reedy
"Python is what BASIC should have been. Easy for beginners, powerful for
advanced applications, able to seamlessly integrate with C, object-ori-
ented. I love this language." TuxTrax
Congratulations to 2002 Active Awards Winners, including Robin Dunn
and Alex Martelli.
http://www.activestate.com/Corporate/Awards/ActiveAwards.html
Paul Rubin notes that some recipes in the Python Cookbook are insecure,
and require access to a true random number generator:
http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=7xit2iff9c.fsf_-_@ruckus.brouhaha.com
People list a number of Python-extendable editors:
http://groups.google.com/groups?threadm=62d99731.0208091518.2b9254a1@posting.google.com
Use Reportlab to create Quicktime movies. Animate your PDF's, turn your
boring documentation into epic cinema:
http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=mailman.1028923525.20440.python-list@python.org
Edsger Dikjstra completes his final computation.
http://www.lwn.net/Articles/6954/
A Python and Zope job market, run by a Python and Zope guy who's in the
job market:
http://python.jobmart.com/
The TIOBE Programming Community Index gives Python a score of 1.8,
that's 0.3 extra points worth of mainstreamness!
http://www.tiobe.com/tpci.htm
An interview with Alex Martelli and David Ascher, editors of _The Python
Cookbook_:
http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/python/2002/08/01/cookbook.html
Missing from the interview is Luther Blisset:
http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=3D509F22.3050108@chello.no
Francois Pinard expounds the virtues of Pyrex:
http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=oq7kj4yx81.fsf@titan.progiciels-bpi.ca
A simple benchmark gets optimized:
http://groups.google.com/groups?threadm=d8778a53.0208070621.62248e3d@posting.google.com
Python defamed in online comments!
http://linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2002-08-05-005-26-IN-BZ-DV
Community rallies in response!
http://groups.google.com/groups?threadm=8a27e309.0208061148.4afe79@posting.google.com
Spam has its purposes. A penis enlargement ad makes people reflect on
gender difference and bias among programmers. Next, expect a
make-money-fast spam to inspire discussion of the economic effects of
faster development times...
http://groups.google.com/groups?threadm=aip30m$bdm$1@scotsman.ed.ac.uk
Software:
OGLE 1.0, a trivial (incomplete) Python OpenGL engine, for your
amusement and education:
http://www.alcyone.com/pyos/ogle/
Need help debugging your regexes? If you have KDE, try Kudos:
http://kodos.sourceforge.net/
Straw, a Gnome Weblog Aggregator:
http://www.helsinki.fi/~pakaste/straw.html
The wxPython Pit covers everything wxWindows and Python related. It's
looking for contributors:
http://wxpython-pit.sourceforge.net/
Sreekant seeks collaboration in completing a music composition program:
http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=436ad7a4.0208102251.5e64fa8e@posting.google.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
Michael Hudson continued Andrew Kuchling's marvelous tradition
of summarizing action on the python-dev mailing list once every
other week, into July 2001. Any volunteers to re-start this
valuable series?
http://starship.python.net/crew/mwh/summaries/
http://www.amk.ca/python/dev
The Vaults of Parnassus ambitiously collect 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 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
Links2Go is a new semi-automated link collection; it's impressive
what AI can generate
http://www.links2go.com/search?search=python
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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