Dr. Dobb's Python-URL!

QOTW:  "Giving full access rights to a secretary or new programmer ought
to insure an occasional random file deletion."  -- Raymond Hettinger

"I always use join, but that's probably because that method is more likely
to run code that I once wrote.  Never trust code written by a man who
uses defines to create his own C syntax."   -- Fredrik Lundh


Discussion
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     Peter Hansen is right in complimenting Sorin Marti on his excellent
     problem description, and helps with reading binary data from a file.
         <http://groups.google.com/groups?threadm=3EFB0E26.9A069A9C%40engcorp.com>

     Fredrik Lundh shows how easy it is to write macro-like extensions
     for your Python application.
         <http://groups.google.com/groups?threadm=mailman.1056722085.11922.python-list@python.org>

     Tim Delaney provides a mutable string class that can be used to
     concatenate strings efficiently and easily, instead of using
     myPage+="more html..." or "\n".join(strings).
         <http://groups.google.com/groups?threadm=mailman.1056587587.3703.python-list@python.org>

     Bengt Richter gives a possible explanation of the (historic?) distiction
     between carriage return (CR) and line feed (LF), and how this bears on
     problems with "shebang" scripts.
         <http://groups.google.com/groups?threadm=bdcl1d$v43$0@216.39.172.122>

     Alan Kennedy explains why compiling to C code is not always guaranteed to
     speed things up, and why PyPy (Python written in Python!) could help
     in the performance department.
         <http://groups.google.com/groups?threadm=3EF9CBD8.F3AFF856@hotmail.com>

     Raymond Hettinger explains the purpose of some of the recent iteration
     constructs (itertools), and why things are this way.
         <http://groups.google.com/groups?threadm=PmwJa.6109$N%6.5701@nwrdny02.gnilink.net>

     Edvard Majakari shares interesting opinions on Unit Testing and
     test-driven development.
         <http://groups.google.com/groups?threadm=87of0pno5s.fsf@titan.staselog.com>
	

Announcements
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     PyRex 0.8, a language for writing Python extension modules.
         <http://www.cosc.canterbury.ac.nz/~greg/python/Pyrex/>

     M2Crypto 0.11, a crypto and SSL toolkit for Python.
         <http://www.post1.com/home/ngps/m2>

     PythonCAD 8th release, a CAD package written in Python.
         <http://www.pythoncad.org/>

     DocUtils 0.3, a system for processing plaintext documentation
     (reStructuredText markup).
         <http://docutils.sourceforge.net/>

     Scratchy 0.4, an Apache log parser and HTML report generator.
         <http://scratchy.sourceforge.net/>

     ClientForm 0.0.10 and 0.1.3a, a Python module for handling
     HTML forms on the client.
         <http://wwwsearch.sourceforge.net/ClientForm/>

     SCons 0.90, a software construction tool (build tool, or make tool).
         <http://www.scons.org/>

     Twisted 1.0.6, an event-driven networking framework for server
     and client applications.
         <http://www.twistedmatrix.com/>
     David Mertz, our own Lulu,  presents Twisted to a wider audience.
	 <http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/linux/library/l-twist1.html>

     TTFQuery 0.2.4, builds on the FontTools module to allow you
     to query TTF font-files for metadata and glyph outlines.
         <http://sourceforge.net/projects/ttfquery/>


========================================================================
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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