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Python-URL! - Weekly Python News and Links (June 2)Jun 03, 2003, 07:00 (0 Talkback[s])QOTW: "There is a certain charm to seeing someone happily advocate a triangular wheel because it has one less bump per revolution than a square wheel does." -- Chuck Swiger "It took me years to realise how deep and important the divide is between wanting an SDK and wanting to know the underlying protocol." -- Tim Bray Discussion: Bengt Richter works out (with a few revisions, and variants from other posters) how to make a switch-case work-alike by abusing exceptions. <http://groups.google.com/groups?th=535044209d026bb#link9> Carl Banks demonstrates an introspective technique for "declaring" local variables. <http://groups.google.com/groups?th=b2a660906391cc6c#link5> A draft essay explaining descriptors, by Raymond Hettinger. <http://users.rcn.com/python/download/Descriptor.htm> Announcements: Python 2.2.3: A bug fix release for the Python 2.2 code line. <http://www.python.org/2.2.3/> Voting for the 2003 Active Awards for open-source programmers starts June 3. <http://www.activestate.com/Corporate/ActiveAwards/> EmPy 3.0: a system for embedding Python expressions and statements in template text. <http://www.alcyone.com/pyos/empy/> gdmodule 0.41: A Python wrapper for the GD graphics module. <http://newcenturycomputers.net/projects/gdmodule.html> McMillan Installer 5b5_3: A utility for distributing Python applications; this is a bug fix release. <http://www.mcmillan-inc.com/installer_dnld.html> managesieve 0.2: A MANGAGESIEVE client library for remotely managing Sieve scripts, including an interactive 'sieveshell'. <http://www.crazy-compilers.com/py-lib/managesieve.html> msnp.py 0.3: A pure-Python implementation of the MSN instant messaging protocol. PyGDChart Alpha 2: A Python interface to the GDChart graphing library. <http://www.nullcube.com/software/pygdchart2.html> PyOSG 0.4.0: Python bindings for the OpenSceneGraph real-time visualisation library. <http://sourceforge.net/projects/pyosg> yawPyCrypto 0.02: A more full-featured PyCrypto wrapper. <http://ph0enix.homelinux.org/~heiko> 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 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. 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 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 Cetus does much of the same http://www.cetus-links.org/oo_python.html Python FAQTS The old Python "To-Do List" now lives principally in a
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