Dr. Dobb’s Python-URL! – Weekly Python News and Links (Jul 26)

QOTW: “With only one historian, there are no errors, everything
written becomes fact.” – Raymond Hettinger about Brett Cannon as
the author of the python-dev summary

“[C]ode runs in the scope it was defined in, not the
scope it is invoked in.” – Jp Calderone

Dan Bishop posts a string-to-date conversion oneliner for Martin
Bless.

http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=ad052e5c.0407201114.71ba95a0%40posting.google.com

When Chris asked for a translation of his QBasic drawing code
into Python, I was about to answer “you need a little more
boilerplate”. But then I learned about turtle module.

http://groups.google.com/groups?threadm=Xns952E8286F18Fduncanrcpcouk%40127.0.0.1

Marduk wants string formatting to work with arbitrary sequences
instead of tuples. It should not be required that all items in the
sequence are consumed by the format string. Hans Nowak proposes a
nice try-and-error approach.

http://groups.google.com/groups?threadm=40FF1A61.9050408%40zephyrfalcon.org

[Off topic] Watch gumshoes Quinlan, Rowe, and Andreas uncover
the evil (I won’t spoil it) haunting newbie Fred’s Python
experience.

http://groups.google.com/groups?threadm=urqsf0lvs9eq64b4ruv5rpsa57ddl35gb8%404ax.com&rnum=1

Dave Reed has written an article about “Rapid Application
Development with Python and Glade”.

http://www.linuxjournal.com/article.php?sid=7421

Istvan Albert describes how to use standard Python classes with
Zope.

http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=dY6dnXGNQOQMvJzcRVn-og%40giganews.com

Steve wants to extract numbers embedded in a text following a
certain pattern. A job for regular expressions? If you follow
c.l.py, you will probably have noted that everything that can be
done with regexps can also be achieved with Paul McGuire’s
pyparsing. Time to give it a try.

http://groups.google.com/groups?threadm=e3805b94.0407240932.6d43a16b%40posting.google.com

http://pyparsing.sourceforge.net

“It really shouldn’t be considered ‘amazing’ that people donate,
I think… it just makes sense.”, as Peter Hansen puts it. Thanks
to a large number of donors, the Python Software Foundation is able
to support Python-related projects.

http://groups.google.com/groups?threadm=40fcaa90%240%2427091%249b622d9e%40news.freenet.de

http://www.python.org/psf/call-2004.html

http://www.python.org/psf/donations.html

Everything Python-related 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
marvelous 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 newsgroup
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 intelligently 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 (PSF) has replaced the Python
Consortium as an independent nexus of activity. It has official
responsibility for Python’s development and maintenance.

http://www.python.org/psf/
Among the ways you can support PSF is with a donation.

http://www.python.org/psf/donate.html

Cetus collects Python hyperlinks.

http://www.cetus-links.org/oo_python.html

Python FAQTS

http://python.faqts.com/

The Cookbook is a collaborative effort to capture useful and
interesting recipes.

http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/Cookbook/Python

Among several Python-oriented RSS/RDF feeds available are

http://www.python.org/channews.rdf

http://bootleg-rss.g-blog.net/pythonware_com_daily.pcgi

http://python.de/backend.php For
more, see

http://www.syndic8.com/feedlist.php?ShowMatch=python&ShowStatus=all

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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