QOTW: "Python does not support buffer overflows, sorry." Martin v. L=F6wis "You don't write generic functions because you're sloppy and don't care about the quality of your input parameters, you write generic functions because they're the most flexible way of designing a solution." Bjorn Petersen Cristos Georgiou demonstrates that Guido has a new baby in the house. http://groups.google.com/[email protected] Gerhard H=E4ring shows how to use a property to provide sanity checks on an attribute. http://groups.google.com/[email protected] Tim Peters explains why you can't do method overloading in Python. http://groups.google.com/[email protected] Announcements: Scenic Charleroi, Belgium, will host The Second EuroPython Python and Zope Conference at the end of June. http://www.europython.org/ ResourcePackage 1.0.0a3 - A tool that makes it possible to import binary objects as if they were Python code. http://resourcepackage.sourceforge.net/ SimpleTAL - A stand alone implementation of TAL and TALES, the language that powers Zope page templates. http://www.owlfish.com/software/simpleTAL/index.html SCons - A python-powered build/make tool. http://sourceforge.net/projects/scons/ rlcompleter2 - An autocompleter that shows docstrings and more. http://codespeak.net/~hpk/rlcompleter2/ ======================================================================== 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/ Partial archives are at 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 (January 20)
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