Dr. Dobb's Python-URL! - weekly Python news and links (Jan 28)
QOTW: It might be nice if it was widely understood (in IT) that Python was a language any competent programmer could pick up in an afternoon, such that Java, C, and Perl shops would not be concerned about the need for their staff to learn a new language. -- Eric Pederson What's kind of surprising is that it has turned out to be easier to rewire the entire world for high-bandwidth Internet than it is to make a good replication architecture so you can work disconnected! -- Joel http://www.salon.com/tech/feature/2004/12/09/spolsky/index4.html It's the Early Bird deadline for PyCon 2005! http://groups-beta.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/browse_thread/thread/5a0eef8d2f4b41c6 A wide-ranging thread on security yields, among other high points, a recommendation to read *Security Engineering* and examples of real security issues Python has: http://groups-beta.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/browse_thread/thread/a5ab5a6a91590230/ Can Python operate on a Windows desktop? Sure, in a variety of ways. Thanks to Dennis Benzinger, Jimmy Retzlaff, Vincent Wehren, and others for their catalogue: http://groups-beta.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/browse_thread/thread/f73cc8e9cad01288/ The martellibot illustrates why Python's introspection--and __subclasses__, in particular--make correct sandboxing so challenging for us: http://groups-beta.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/browse_thread/thread/d5f4d7e2c397c2ca/ After a rest of a couple months, it's time again to urge consideration of IPython as your working shell: http://groups-beta.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/browse_thread/thread/3fed261a83318a1e 4XSLT is thread-safe, but individual processor instances are not. 4Suite exploits processor-per-thread: http://groups-beta.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/browse_thread/thread/c118d6ead64ca003 Thread inheritance with win32com requires Co*nitialize() management: http://groups-beta.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/browse_thread/thread/3e3487f970825fc8 Gerald and the timbot speak sense on the platform-specificity that is memory management. http://groups-beta.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/browse_thread/thread/2bef18c56f085eeb Do NOT let your inheritance schemes complexify. One palliative tactic is to remember (lazy) containerization as an alternative to subclassing. And learn about decorators. And descriptors, for that matter: http://groups-beta.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/browse_thread/thread/730e4e3bb3c55b28/ Do people still FTP? Well, Python people *can* ...: http://groups-beta.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/browse_thread/thread/37b847a725bd8d9f 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=djqas_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 Python Success Stories--from air-traffic control to on-line match-making--can inspire you or decision-makers to whom you're subject with a vision of what the language makes practical. http://www.pythonology.com/success 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.
Dr. Dobb's Python-URL! - weekly Python news and links (Jan 28)
QOTW: It might be nice if it was widely understood (in IT) that Python was a language any competent programmer could pick up in an afternoon, such that Java, C, and Perl shops would not be concerned about the need for their staff to learn a new language. -- Eric Pederson What's kind of surprising is that it has turned out to be easier to rewire the entire world for high-bandwidth Internet than it is to make a good replication architecture so you can work disconnected! -- Joel http://www.salon.com/tech/feature/2004/12/09/spolsky/index4.html It's the Early Bird deadline for PyCon 2005! http://groups-beta.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/browse_thread/thread/5a0eef8d2f4b41c6 A wide-ranging thread on security yields, among other high points, a recommendation to read *Security Engineering* and examples of real security issues Python has: http://groups-beta.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/browse_thread/thread/a5ab5a6a91590230/ Can Python operate on a Windows desktop? Sure, in a variety of ways. Thanks to Dennis Benzinger, Jimmy Retzlaff, Vincent Wehren, and others for their catalogue: http://groups-beta.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/browse_thread/thread/f73cc8e9cad01288/ The martellibot illustrates why Python's introspection--and __subclasses__, in particular--make correct sandboxing so challenging for us: http://groups-beta.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/browse_thread/thread/d5f4d7e2c397c2ca/ After a rest of a couple months, it's time again to urge consideration of IPython as your working shell: http://groups-beta.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/browse_thread/thread/3fed261a83318a1e 4XSLT is thread-safe, but individual processor instances are not. 4Suite exploits processor-per-thread: http://groups-beta.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/browse_thread/thread/c118d6ead64ca003 Thread inheritance with win32com requires Co*nitialize() management: http://groups-beta.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/browse_thread/thread/3e3487f970825fc8 Gerald and the timbot speak sense on the platform-specificity that is memory management. http://groups-beta.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/browse_thread/thread/2bef18c56f085eeb Do NOT let your inheritance schemes complexify. One palliative tactic is to remember (lazy) containerization as an alternative to subclassing. And learn about decorators. And descriptors, for that matter: http://groups-beta.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/browse_thread/thread/730e4e3bb3c55b28/ Do people still FTP? Well, Python people *can* ...: http://groups-beta.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/browse_thread/thread/37b847a725bd8d9f 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=djqas_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 Python Success Stories--from air-traffic control to on-line match-making--can inspire you or decision-makers to whom you're subject with a vision of what the language makes practical. http://www.pythonology.com/success 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.
