Python-URL! - Weekly Python News and Links (February 3)
Feb 09, 2003, 23:00 (0 Talkback[s])
QOTW: "I'd say that Python's greatest strength is that it took me about
two months to become as competent at Python as I was after two years of
C++." Mark Charsley
"I think it a pretty firm rule that the more experienced and talented a
programmer is, the LESS likely s/he is to claim her code is bug free."
David Mertz
Discussion:
Excellent concepts for Exception use appear throughout a recent thread.
http://groups.google.com/groups?frame=left&th=a5f4f5dcf8ec3ab
A discussion of the ways one can test python code for errors before
running it.
http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=jpsl3vcbb4tlv97l7bi2319238hkl3rdol@4ax.com
A question about accepting both sequences and strings as a
non-sequence evolves into a discussion of performance, interfaces, and
what exactly it means to be a string.
http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=m4di3v4koufdbf4e2pvsanegli2kqt48ch@4ax.com
A discussion of how to do translate common Perl idioms to Python.
http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=c42e062e.0301291531.6a656e4@posting.google.com
A discussion of the ways that static variables can be simulated in Python.
http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=mailman.1043870531.24472.python-list@python.org
Announcements:
KORBA - .Net for python went through several upgrades in the last week.
http://www.gadgil.net/DotNetWrapperForPython.htm
Twisted 1.0.2 - a framework for building internet server and client
applications.
http://www.twistedmatrix.com/
Blog with (CGI) Python: Pyblosxom 0.6.
http://sf.net/projects/pyblosxom/
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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 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 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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