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Dr. Dobb's Python-URL! - weekly Python news and links (Sep 9)
QOTW: "I've had an interesting year - I've been coding in nothing but Python (Unix & Win32) and *assembler* (embedded PIC processors). Talk about a contrast! Yet in both cases, the languages 'Fit My Brain' for the tasks at hand." - Tim Daneliuk http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-list/2002-September/121704.html "I'm too new to Python to give you good technical reasons to use it, but I like it :)" - TeaAndBikkie http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-list/2002-September/121789.html "This is actually the first new program I've coded in C (rather than Python) in a good four years or so." - Eric S. Raymond http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-list/2002-September/121533.html Threads.. The Python-dev list summary for 2002-08-16 - 2002-09-01: http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-list/2002-September/121533.html In light of the new PEP Format, Dr. David Mertz narrarates his experience with text formatting markup methods: http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-list/2002-August/120870.html Python interprocess communication methods: http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-list/2002-September/120900.html Many thoughts on the cryptic nature of regular expressions: http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-list/2002-September/120906.html Duncan Booth points some of the relatively few gotchas he's encountered when packaging a Python program into an EXE: http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-list/2002-September/120984.html Python-based Windows EXE's installation hints: http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-list/2002-September/121711.html Repeatable module import debuging tips: http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-list/2002-September/120972.html There are faster ways for building huge strings: http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-list/2002-September/121103.html Thorough response to algorithm question on 'Smoothing a discrete set of data': http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-list/2002-September/121777.html Building Python on SCO issues discussed: http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-list/2002-September/121231.html Number-of-threads-implemented concern addressed: http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-list/2002-September/121260.html More answers on reasons to learn Python, with thoughts on PHP: http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-list/2002-September/121264.html Tim Rue is perplexing. This thread concludes with with an FAQ that makes things as clear as possible. http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-list/2002-September/121701.html Question on encryption leads to intro, warnings and directions to more detailed resources: http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-list/2002-September/121270.html How to handle stdin/stdout for daemonization: http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-list/2002-September/121783.html Thoughts on support for rebinding in nested scopes: http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-list/2002-September/121531.html Which database is right for 2000-3000 records?: http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-list/2002-September/121546.html Larry Wall's Python comments in his Slashdot interview http://interviews.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/09/06/1343222&mode=nocomment are discussed on the c.l.py: http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-list/2002-September/121683.html Software xmlrpclib 1.0.1 includes Bug fixes and performance enhancements: http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-announce-list/2002-September/001665.html CherryPy? 0.6 adds SSL support: http://www.cherrypy.org JinSitu - Interactive introspection environment for Java and Jython: http://www.krause-software.de/jinsitu/ Pyrex 0.4.4.1 now available: http://www.cosc.canterbury.ac.nz/~greg/python/Pyrex/ PyGame 1.53 includes CD-ROM & MPEG object enhancements, Civil-0.8 and rectangle handling improvements: http://www.pygame.org lfm 0.9, UNIX Python Midnight Commander Clone: http://www.terra.es/personal7/inigoserna/lfm scgi 0.5 is now available from: http://www.mems-exchange.org/software/scgi/ "spambayes" is a Python implementation of applying Bayesian classifier to spam detection: http://sf.net/projects/spambayes New Stackless Python beta available: http://www.stackless.com 'waccess' v. 2.0 web log analyzer is released at: http://www.tundraware.com/Software/waccess/ Freeware 'AutoIt' Win32 UI test automation tool noted: http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-list/2002-September/121681.html ======================================================================== 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 Michael Hudson continues Andrew Kuchling's marvelous tradition 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.* Previous - (U)se the (R)esource, (L)uke! - messages are listed here: http://www.ddj.com/topics/pythonurl/ http://purl.org/thecliff/python/url.html (dormant) or http://groups.google.com/groups?oi=djq&as_q=+Python-URL!&as_ugroup=comp.lang.python Suggestions/corrections for next week's posting are always welcome. 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