Dr. Dobb's Python-URL!

QOTW:  "You're only overlooking the consequences of an infinite amount of
information <wink>." -- Tim Peters on why the bitwise-not operator is
equivalent to -(n+1).

"Perl, Python, Ruby and Tcl are the four dynamic programming languages that
get the most publicity as open source projects, and I think they have a lot
more in common than they differ." -- Guido van Rossum


Discussion
----------
    Andrew Dalke makes the case not all language specialties need to be
    subsumed into Python:
        <http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=MOX1b.1042%24Jh2.797@newsread4.news.pas.earthlink.net>

    Michele Simionato posts an example where Python and Pysco run twice
    as fast as optimized C:
        <http://groups.google.com/groups?threadm=3f48e825.858271679@news.blueyonder.co.uk>

    Guido speaks.  Steve Holden's interview of him touches on his move
    to the Left Coast, along with much else.
        <http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/python/2003/08/14/gvr_interview.html>

    Jimmy Retzlaff:  why and when it is possible for Psyco to run faster
    that optimized C:
        <http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=mailman.1061514047.29739.python-list@python.org>

    Erik Lechak proposes a novel mapping class using regular expressions
    to match keys.
        <http://groups.google.com/groups?th=5390a590a6a3f8bd>

    Erik Max Francis explains why the % formatting operator must have
    the same precendence as the % remainder operator.
        <http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=3F42AB2F.97C25A43@alcyone.com>

Releases
--------
    Pmw 1.2, Python megawidgets for Tkinter.
        <http://pmw.sourceforge.net/>

    cxOracle, a Python extension module for accessing Oracle.
        <http://starship.python.net/crew/atuining>

    BlackAdder V1.0.0, a Windows/Linus application development environment
    for Python and Qt with a debugger, IDE, and GUI designer.
        <http://www.rygannon.com>

    SC-Track Roundup 0.6.0, an issue tracking system.
        <http://roundup.sourceforge.net/>

    Soprano 0.003, a GUI (wxpython) network scanner written in python for
    scanning a selected range of ip addresses and retrieving info about
    the host.
        <http://sourceforge.net/projects/soprano/>

    SCons 0.92, a build/make tool written in Python.  
        <http://www.scons.org/>

    Snakelets 1.3, a simple threaded web application server built to
    demonstrate how dynamical web pages are built.
        <http://snakelets.sourceforge.net>

========================================================================
Everything Python-related 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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