QOTW: The canonical, "Python is a great first language", elicited, "Python is a great last language!" -- Noah Spurrier <[email protected]> "We C++ programmers have developed tricks to help us deal with this sort of thing, in much the same way that people who suffer severe childhood trauma develop psychological mechanisms to insulate themselves from those experiences :-) " - Joseph A. Knapka http://groups.google.com/groups?th=b16d1daabdacd1de "A growing number of utilities is a sign that a format is popular, not that it is good." -- Oren Tirosh Threads: A thoughtful note on one person's decision to use Python in a scientific environment: <[email protected]> A Lisp implementation of a statistical spam filter described at http://www.paulgraham.com/spam.html is converted to Python, debated, and discussed: http://groups.google.com/groups?th=163046edb9100ee8 A newbie's question about the behavior of lists and references is answered: <001601c24750$c5490d10$0effa8c0@john> Sites and stuff: gamasutra.com has an article on using Python to script games: http://www.gamasutra.com/features/20020821/dawson_01.htm (free but intrusive registration required) New PEP Format: reStructuredText http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/Mail/Message/python-dev/1341652 'Seen the new Python book? http://click.unixreview.email-publisher.com/maaavMbaaTpIEa2scaRb/ Software: Psyco 0.4.1 is released. Psyco is an extension to the standard Python interpreter to perform "specialized compiling" -- giving Python some of the speed advantages of statically typed languages like C: http://psyco.sourceforge.net/ Jimmy Retzlaff posts benchmarks of standard Python, Pyrex, and Psyco which show impressive performance: http://groups.google.com/groups?th=d85d63a710c53607 XMail 1.00 is released, both a suite of applications, and a framework to extend. It is both an SMTP and POP server: http://xmail.marketmix.com/products/xqm/xqm_lib.php The Albatross web application framework reaches 1.00: http://www.object-craft.com.au/projects/albatross/ SimpleParse 2.0.0 is released. SimpleParse is a parser generator -- for parsing programming-language-like syntaxes: http://simpleparse.sourceforge.net/ Python In PHP: a Python interpreter embedded in PHP, for the linguistically indecisive (alpha code): http://www.csh.rit.edu/~jon/projects/pip/ ======================================================================== 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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Python-URL! – Weekly Python News and Links (September 4)
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