This week's Python-URL

QOTW:  "In the context of storage, there are three types of applications ...:
relational databases, files and objects such as photographs, and system
backups that have to be easy to retrieve."  Mark Lewis, CTO of EMC
    http://techupdate.zdnet.com/techupdate/stories/main/0,14179,2914178,00.html  
"And surprisingly enough, I rarely use regular expressions any more.  There
are usually simpler and better ways of doing it for most problems."
    Max M Rasmussen, on his transition to Python 


    Any beginner knows that an interpreted language like Python is
    slow.  It requires expertise like Alex Martelli's to measure
    how slow, though ... or, wait a minute; that's not slow!  And
    beginners *should* know timeit.py.
	http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=kjBkb.313494%24R32.10342512%40news2.tin.it

    We often talk about Python's portability.  At the same time, 
    the language is capable at accessing platform-specific results.
    Tim Howarth provides a lucid example which lists all machines in
    an Active Directory domain.
	http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=2f3cef424c.tim%40worthy.demon.co.uk

    "Slithy is a library for creating animated PowerPoint-style 
    presentations using Python and OpenGL."
	http://isotropic.org/uw/slithy
    Dinu Gherman uses PythonPoint in much the same role.
	http://python.net/~gherman/Presentations.html

    The A-A-P project is a make replacement and extension written in Python.
    Part of the project is "Zimbu Awards" given to those who helped improving
    the project:  fame *and* real money.
        http://www.a-a-p.org/zimbu_award.html

    Yes, it can do *that*, too:  Peter Hansen's latest example of a
    Serious Program coded in Python is a "test-driven development framework
    for our embedded code."
	http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=3F90AA61.134755F%40engcorp.com

    In a thread nominally focused on multimedia and games, Jonathan P.
    quickly enumerates what's really salient in deploying desktop
    applications based on either Java or Python:  memory use,
    installation footprint, ...
	http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=bmm72h%24ngv3c%241%40ID-180326.news.uni-berlin.de

    Bengt Richter provides a module that "check[s] Python source for 
    syntax errors ..." and other dangers, as an existence proof that
    textual descriptions can be rendered into Python objects.
	http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=bmoc34%24nmo%240%40216.39.172.122

    Kyler Laird reports that PyStripchart is capable of "cool"
    demonstrations and more, for those with an interest in display
    of "time-sampled data in an interactive 'strip chart' form".
	http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=7lt261-t75.ln1%40jowls.lairds.org


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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
    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-AT-pythonjournal.com and editor-AT-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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