QOTW: "Best practice is, as Neil said, to think about a module, and hard, when 'cleaning it up'. Widespread mechanical edits aren't welcome, and especially since the last such effort (massive conversion to string methods) introduced several bugs in the process. Better to find modules to love long-term and keep them deeply beautiful, than to splash paint on boils at random just to cover up the oozing pus <gross wink>." -- timbot ( http://groups.google.com/groups?dq=&hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF8&selm=mailman.1027979603.23658.python-list%40python.org) "As a language designer, or BDFL, there's a fine line to walk between keeping the language growing and expressive, keeping it simple and regular, and just keeping it sensible. Guido's done a pretty good job in my opinion. I'd say that Python is my 'Goldilocks' language - not too restrictive, not too loose." -- Jonathan Hogg "If I see one more msg containing 'Turing-complete' on this newgroup, I'm sorry, but the author dies. " -- timbot ( http://groups.google.com/groups?q=g:thl2851069096d&dq=&hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF8&selm=UPMAIL09.199704290640490115%40msn.com) People ponder the lambda, and consider alternate syntaxes: http://groups.google.com/groups?dq=&hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF8&threadm=aik9a3%24k7r%240%40216.39.172.122&prev=/groups%3Fhl%3Den%26lr%3D%26ie%3DUTF-8%26oe%3DUTF8%26q%3Dcomp.lang.python ...but it's only hypothetical: http://groups.google.com/groups?q=g:thl2223531272d&dq=&hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF8&selm=mailman.1027935046.452.python-list%40python.org Some think lambdas are unnecessary: http://groups.google.com/groups?q=g:thl4016888880d&dq=&hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF8&selm=xnh09.145677%24vm5.4740762%40news2.tin.it While others think anti-lambda biases are arbitrary: http://groups.google.com/groups?q=g:thl1085081912d&dq=&hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF8&selm=7x3cu6f8sv.fsf%40ruckus.brouhaha.com Tim Peters reports on a new (faster) sorting algorithm he's checked in: http://groups.google.com/groups?dq=&hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF8&threadm=dAh39.28645%24yc3.1200558%40bin4.nnrp.aus1.giganews.com&prev=/groups%3Fhl%3Den%26lr%3D%26ie%3DUTF-8%26oe%3DUTF8%26q%3Dcomp.lang.python Some discussion of Tcl idioms, and Python alternatives: http://groups.google.com/groups?dq=&hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF8&threadm=Xns926026611E674rcamesz%40amesz.demon.nl&prev=/groups%3Fhl%3Den%26lr%3D%26ie%3DUTF-8%26oe%3DUTF8%26q%3Dcomp.lang.python import * considered harmful: http://groups.google.com/groups?dq=&hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF8&threadm=slrnaklo11.ocs.TuxTrax%40fortress.tuxnet&prev=/groups%3Fdq%3D%26num%3D25%26hl%3Den%26lr%3D%26ie%3DUTF-8%26oe%3DUTF8%26group%3Dcomp.lang.python%26start%3D50 Guido explains why compiling Python to Java bytecodes won't, or perhaps shouldn't happen: http://groups.google.com/groups?q=g:thl3408831027d&dq=&hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF8&selm=199704282226.SAA16801%40monty Look at the Python bytecodes yourself and see: http://www.python.org/doc/current/lib/bytecodes.html And Terry Reedy suggests a potential bytecode optimization that has been a long time coming: http://groups.google.com/groups?q=g:thl2851069096d&dq=&hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF8&selm=bOy29.30662%24vg.1070500%40bin2.nnrp.aus1.giganews.com Francois Pinard gives the origin of the localization function "_": http://groups.google.com/groups?dq=&hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF8&selm=mailman.1027542588.14725.python-list%40python.org Alex Martelli give optimization advice on the extremely common task of building strings from lists: http://groups.google.com/groups?dq=&hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF8&selm=vAD09.128813%24Jj7.2970701%40news1.tin.it&rnum=2 A number of solutions are presented for finding executables in the PATH, in a portable fashion: http://groups.google.com/groups?dq=&hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF8&threadm=mailman.1028125430.3390.python-list%40python.org&prev=/groups%3Fdq%3D%26num%3D25%26hl%3Den%26lr%3D%26ie%3DUTF-8%26oe%3DUTF8%26group%3Dcomp.lang.python%26start%3D150 Is anyone working on combining Python and Mozilla? Sleepy projects abound: http://groups.google.com/groups?dq=&hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF8&selm=mailman.1028069976.12868.python-list%40python.org New Software: Another Python-Server-Pages-alike, empy: http://www.alcyone.com/pyos/empy/ Crusader enters the fast growing ranks of Python web application frameworks: http://www.movatis.com/crusader/ A dedicated web-services-server, MSS: http://www.ansolve.btinternet.co.uk/mss/ An image processing application is begun: http://imageprocess.sourceforge.net/ ======================================================================== 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 The online Python Journal is posted at pythonjournal.cognizor.com/. [email protected] and [email protected] 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 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.* Previous - (U)se the (R)esource, (L)uke! - messages are listed here: http://www.ddj.com/topics/pythonurl/ http://purl.org/thecliff/python/url.html (dormant) or http://groups.google.com/groups?oi=djq&as_q=+Python-URL!&as_ugroup=comp.lang.python Suggestions/corrections for next week's posting are always welcome. [http://www.egroups.com/list/python-url-leads/ is hibernating. 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