QOTW: "Writing your own Lisp Macro System is better than sex." empiricist Laura Creighton "The reality is, Perl forces the programmer to choose between laziness and carefulness. In Python, you can (to a certain extent) be lazy and not careless." self-conscious Carl Banks "In my opinion nobody should use Tkinter without Pmw." enthusiast Horst Gassner Patrick O'Brien provides a "Guide to Python introspection". http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/library/l-pyint.html Naive questioners who just want to get at a DLL with Python probably are in search of ctypes. http://starship.python.net/crew/theller/ctypes.html Eric Max Francis thinks aloud about filter and codec patterns as he applies them in EmPy. http://groups.google.com/groups?frame=right&th=f2de31bf137e5845 Laura Creighton wrenches a long and modestly consequential thread aiming to quantify "popularity" into a deep description of healthy teamwork, XP practice, and testability. http://groups.google.com/groups?frame=left&th=fa4b1f4c2d1c5f18 Trent Mick and others make simple HTTPS Python service seem almost like a reasonable goal. http://groups.google.com/groups?frame=left&th=3ad2d5de60bb5f05 Bengt Richter and a few others with ambitions for Python to do symbolic calculations demonstrate the language's flexibility and power with simple parsing examples. http://groups.google.com/groups?th=bb5539c93160ef1b Uche Ogbuji's work with XML is important. Most recent is his "Companion". http://www.xml.com/pub/a/2002/12/11/py-xml.html ======================================================================== 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/ 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 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/. [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 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. E-mail to <[email protected]> should get through. To receive a new issue of this posting in e-mail each Monday morning (approximately), ask <[email protected]> to subscribe. Mention "Python-URL!". -- The Python-URL! Team-- Dr. Dobb's Journal (http://www.ddj.com) is pleased to participate in and sponsor the "Python-URL!" project.
Python-URL! – Weekly Python News and Links (December 17)
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