Python-URL! – Weekly Python News and Links (April 21)

QOTW:  "This suggests that "nobody" doesn't eval to 0, but at least 3."
                                            -- Christian Tismer

"This is one thing Grothendieck got absolutely right: one should
always, always, always consider the relative situation (i.e. think
about morphisms rather than maps)." --  Michael Hudson


Discussion:
    Much ado about the appropriate uses of __str_ and _repr__ (with
    a digression on orbital mechanics, for flavour).
        <<A HREF="http://groups.google.com/groups?th=24b817d49ec3a59b>">http://groups.google.com/groups?th=24b817d49ec3a59b>;

    Roy Smith illustrates the "Big O" notation by an informal analysis
    of everyone's favourite Python performance gotcha -- repeated
    string concatenation.
        <<A HREF="http://groups.google.com/groups?th=274dcb113af97b01#link3>">http://groups.google.com/groups?th=274dcb113af97b01#link3>;

    David Mertz suggests making repeated string concatenation faster.
        <<A HREF="http://groups.google.com/groups?th=5968aec796657f37>">http://groups.google.com/groups?th=5968aec796657f37>;

    Continued from last week: the state of the Python web programming
    world; further development of the theme "gee, there's a lot of
    frameworks"; ruminations on simplifying the situation.
        <<A HREF="http://groups.google.com/groups?th=903e379430bffdfd>">http://groups.google.com/groups?th=903e379430bffdfd>;

Announcements:
    The deadline for Python 11 - OSCON 2003 early bird registration is
    May 23rd, 2003. The conference will be held July 7-11, 2003 in
    Portland, Oregon, USA.
        <<A HREF="http://conferences.oreillynet.com/os2003/>">http://conferences.oreillynet.com/os2003/>;

    PyKota v1.03: PyKota is a python-written, internationalized,
    complete, centralized and extensible print quota solution for CUPS.
        <<A HREF="http://www.librelogiciel.com/software/PyKota/>">http://www.librelogiciel.com/software/PyKota/>;

    Pyrex 0.7.2: A language for writing Python extension modules.  It
    lets you freely mix operations on Python and C data, with all
    Python reference counting and error checking handled
    automatically.  This release fixes several bugs.
        <<A HREF="http://www.cosc.canterbury.ac.nz/~greg/python/Pyrex/>">http://www.cosc.canterbury.ac.nz/~greg/python/Pyrex/>;

    Stackless Python 3.0 alpha 1: Christian Tismer's alternative
    Python implementation, once again much transformed.
        <<A HREF="http://www.stackless.com/>">http://www.stackless.com/>;

    Tux Math Scrabble v2.0: A math version of the popular board game
    for ages 4-40.
        <<A HREF="http://www.asymptopia.com/>">http://www.asymptopia.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

    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.
        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 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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