Dr. Dobb's Python-URL! - weekly Python news and links (Oct 28)

QOTW:  "Grab an interpreter (it's free), fire up an interactive Python
shell, and start playing with the tutorial of your choice (also free). 
That's the fastest way to get answers to your questions you'll believe.
You'll like the answer you discover -- unless you're an idiot <wink>."
        				Tim Peters

"And that's the really important point in my opinion -- the Cookbook
[published by O'Reilly] *is* the Python Community's book."  Alex Martelli

"It's cool to be able to create objects based on a class name in a text
file, without having to write a whole system of factories.  It's cool to
have a collection of heterogeneous function objects without sweating for
hours over the type declaration syntax, or rebuilding everything with a
common base class.  Python rocks!"  Bruce Dawson


Discussion
    Mel Wilson gives a helpful (if only slightly inaccurate) view from
    thirty kilofeet regarding transitioning from Java/C++ to Python:
        http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=sbVt9ks/KPvM089yn%40the-wire.com

    Alex Martelli compares Python with Ruby in an impromptu dissertation.
        http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=Sgiu9.33609%24aL4.1010957%40news1.tin.it

    A "just for fun" thread about computing permutations of sequences
    leads to the usual high quality answers involving Python optimization:
        http://groups.google.com/groups?threadm=apgcnd%24dbh%241%40news.hccnet.nl

    Another thread on optimization of numeric computations yields useful
    insights:
        http://groups.google.com/groups?threadm=Xns92B01D61ED20Bdonkansevenyahoocom%40130.133.1.4

Software
    Twisted 1.0.0 Developer Platform is released:
        http://www.twistedmatrix.com/

    Humongous Entertainment releases Backward Hockey, a commercial game
    with engine components written in C++, but the bulk of which is
    written in Python:
        http://www.funkidsgames.com/games/byhockey_pc/

    SpaceWarPy is a clone of the classic game SpaceWar, using pygame 1.5:
        http://www.anti-particle.com/spacewarpy.shtml

    KavCalc is a simple calculator implemented with pygame:
        http://kavlon.org/projects/

Resources
    Christopher Lozinski has created a Python and Zope job market Web
    page (which is, of course, written in Python and Zope itself):
        http://python.jobmart.com/

    Patrick O'Brien has written an article introducing Python for use
    in bioinformatics:
        http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/python/2002/10/17/biopython.html

    Bruce Dawson's article from GDC 2002 about game scripting in
    Python is available from Gamasutra:
        http://www.gamasutra.com/features/20020821/dawson_pfv.htm


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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://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.
    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

    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.*

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