This week's Python-URL

QOTW:  "The site that I worked on spent TWO MILLION U.S. DOLLARS on its web
server hardware.  OK, it used Java servlets that are even slower than Python,
but you have to understand that there's a point after which you can no longer
pretend that hardware is free."  -- Paul Rubin

"Monte Carlo sampling is no way to understand code." -- Gordon McMillan


    Martin v. Loewis clarifies what entities might "compete" with Python
	http://www.google.com/groups?selm=c4sqle%24ds%2403%241%40news.t-online.com

    Peter Otten determines to find the simplest way of automatically
    assigning instance attributes from an argument list
        http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=c6alei$hv4$05$1@news.t-online.com
        http://groups.google.com/groups?threadm=c6alei%24hv4%2405%241%40news.t-online.com

    Is application-level configuration worth its own "advanced ... parser
    and validator"?  Is working with*out* tconfpy any more sensible?  Give
    thanks to Tim Daneliuk
	http://www.tundraware.com/Software/tconfpy/
    
    A question from a Delphi user about getters and setters in Python
    elicits a good set of URLs on properties
        http://groups.google.com/groups?&threadm=407e402c%241%40newsflash.abo.fi
    
    The long-awaited SciPy 0.3 arrives
        http://groups.google.com/groups?&selm=mailman.880.1082583661.20120.python-list@python.org
    
    Alan Kennedy bravely works through a concrete example of management
    of Word-as-XML
        http://groups.google.com/groups?frame=left&th=fa888d67a6991cfd

    Python 2.4 is on its way
        http://python.org/peps/pep-0320.html
    
    Francois Pinard believes he improves on Guido's main() model
	http://groups.google.com/groups?frame=left&th=f94d0e366becbbca

    Michael Hudson Thinks Like a Pythonista about stacklessness,
    bytecodehacks, and more
	http://starship.python.net/crew/mwh/hacks/

    Ero Carrera's pydot interface to the graphviz graph visualization
    library (the "nodes and edges" kind of graph) is addictive
        http://dkbza.org/pydot.html


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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
    marvelous 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 newsgroup 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 intelligently 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 (PSF) has replaced the Python
    Consortium as an independent nexus of activity.  It has official
    responsibility for Python's development and maintenance. 
        http://www.python.org/psf/
    Among the ways you can support PSF is with a donation.
        http://www.python.org/psf/donate.html

    Cetus collects Python hyperlinks.
        http://www.cetus-links.org/oo_python.html

    Python FAQTS
        http://python.faqts.com/

    The Cookbook is a collaborative effort to capture useful and
    interesting recipes.
	http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/Cookbook/Python

    Among several Python-oriented RSS/RDF feeds available are
	http://www.python.org/channews.rdf
	http://bootleg-rss.g-blog.net/pythonware_com_daily.pcgi
	http://python.de/backend.php
    For more, see
	http://www.syndic8.com/feedlist.php?ShowMatch=python&ShowStatus=all
    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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