Dr. Dobb's Python-URL!

QOTW:  "[In 1993,] it was hard to regard Python as a general-purpose
language.  Ten years later, we can argue that Python is more
general-purpose than C!"             -- Cameron Laird

"It [neurotic reductionism] tries to make us efficient, even at the cost of
clarity and maintainability.  In that way lies bit-twiddling and assembler
language and soldering irons.  We must be diligent in our fight against it." 
-- Roy Smith



Discussion:
    Peter Hansen suggests that using agile methods can make it easier
    to learn a large framework (such as Twisted).
        <http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=3ECE1F88.A4233779%40engcorp.com>

    Tim Peters earns his weekly Python-URL mention by pointing out
    (and describing the overhead of) the COUNT_ALLOCS build option,
    which supplies object allocation statistics on a per-type basis.
        <http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=mailman.1053887860.10212.python-list%40python.org>

    David Abrahams discusses the idea that a function's contract
    should include what changes it might have made when it throws an
    exception.
        <http://groups.google.com/groups?th=29b6a90761b0f977#link9>

    A new DeveloperWorks article (by Python-URL's very own Cameron
    Laird) about good exception style.
        <http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/linux/library/l-sc13.html>

Announcements:
    Python 2.2.3c1: The first release candidate for the next
    maintenance release of Python.
        <http://www.python.org/2.2.3/>

    Design by Contract for Python 1.0 beta 1: A cross between full
    Eiffel-style contracts and the doctest module.
        <http://www.wayforward.net/pycontract/>

    IPython 0.4.0: An enhanced interactive Python shell.
        <http://ipython.scipy.org/>

    SCons 0.14: A build tool; an improved substitute for the classic
    make utility.
        <http://www.scons.org/>

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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://www.python.org/dev/summary/

    The Python Package Index catalogues packages.
        http://www.python.org/pypi/

    The somewhat older Vaults of Parnassus ambitiously collects references
    to all sorts of 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.
    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

    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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