Python-URL! - Weekly Python News and Links (April 2)
Apr 04, 2002, 08:00 (2 Talkback[s])
QOTW: "Is this one of those deals where you tickle a file with that
'mouse' thing, and then a dialog box from an irrelevant program pops
up and steals the focus before you can finish what you started? I
love stuff like that." -Tim Peters
"[T]he distinctive difference between PCs and other consumer electronics
is that only PCs are allowed to fail in routine use." -Peter Coffee
Does Python deserve a boolean type? Powerful minds analyze PEP 285.
http://groups.google.com/groups?th=3d8f05b445cdbf9b
Aahz echoes timbot's entreaties to esteem the benefits of Queue.Queue.
http://groups.google.com/groups?th=1e465bd53977862f
April Fool's roundup:
ZWiki Author Disillusioned...Rubymortis sets in. - see "Big news"
http://zwiki.org/GeneralDiscussion
http://zwiki.org/GeneralDiscussion200204 (future archive)
ZopeNewbies: Microsoft takes over Zope
http://www.zopenewbies.net/1017662225/index_html
Sestina deemed best format for switch statement implementation
http://www.acmenet.net/~jilhan/sesform.html
Docstrings requirement feature in 2.2.1 avoidable by use of ""
SOAP to be transported over IRC; finger/whois replaces WSDL.
The real Tkinter documentation URL:
http://groups.google.com/groups?th=83aa5100ac5e4d76&seekm=slrnaa7ic5.ehu.philh%40comuno.freeserve.co.uk#link20
Bob McMillan elicits "Python's Creator Guido van Rossum's Take on Open
Source's Favorite Serpent"
http://www.linux-mag.com/2001-12/rossum_01.html
Plotting Pointers:
http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-list/2002-March/094177.html
Nicolas Chauvat is looking for interested people to form a Logic-SIG
or CLP-SIG.
http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-list/2002-March/094019.html
Reading binary as text is not the easiest way..
http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-list/2002-March/094424.html
Coding can be pure poetry...
http://groups.google.com/groups?th=83aa5100ac5e4d76&seekm=FC718F7B3AF20F62.09ECC4E1E82F69E7.7E08A6AB55BAC1B9%40lp.airnews.net#link6
Measuring memory allocation
http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-list/2002-March/094191.html
Messaging or Threading..and safely
http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-list/2002-March/094235.html
PEP 262: Database of Installed Python Packages Moving into Interface
Development and on to Integration
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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
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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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