Python-URL! - weekly Python news and links (Aug 23)
QOTW: ... [O]nce you accept that text is best handled in Unicode, there's little sense in making an exception for the limited subset that happens to be representable in ASCII. - Ben Finney http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/msg/accc8c2ae9d7ed15 Python 3.1.1 released: http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/t/f34c4b07a61f4414/ Parallelization in Python 2.6: http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/t/c8169c393e58a5d5/ 012=3D=3D10, a relic from ancient times, is finally gone: http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/t/3bc42fffb012635b/ How to ensure a method is actually implemented in a derived class: http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/t/42d0ec54b7683f23/ Is this community sexist? (Also, etymology of the word guy Guy ~ Guido) http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/t/7a190c24d8025bb4/ A for loop using range() is inefficient, but other Python variants are able to optimize it: http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/t/27df793be6f5675/ The scope of names inside a class statement: http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/t/4a244346dc9a5f15/ Counting how many times items from a set appear on a given list: http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/t/fb0580cefff96682/ Construct a dictionary from a list [key,value,key,value,...] (many recipes!): http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/t/e16e180b5f61f748/ And more recipes: format a number with thousand separators: http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/t/2eb729797f162a6e/ Code style: how to write a long conditional expression: http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/t/6876917a4d579d59/ On the concept of functor and how it may be applied to Python: http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/t/8fbc7ad2ec11841c/ 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 Just beginning with Python? This page is a great place to start: http://wiki.python.org/moin/BeginnersGuide/Programmers The Python Papers aims to publish the efforts of Python enthusiasts: http://pythonpapers.org/ The Python Magazine is a technical monthly devoted to Python: http://pythonmagazine.com Readers have recommended the Planet sites: http://planetpython.org http://planet.python.org comp.lang.python.announce announces new Python software. Be sure to scan this newsgroup weekly. http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.python.announce/topics Python411 indexes podcasts ... to help people learn Python ... Updates appear more-than-weekly: http://www.awaretek.com/python/index.html The Python Package Index catalogues packages. http://www.python.org/pypi/ Much of Python's real work takes place on Special-Interest Group mailing lists http://www.python.org/sigs/ 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. http://www.python.org/psf/ Among the ways you can support PSF is with a donation. http://www.python.org/psf/donations/ The Summary of Python Tracker Issues is an automatically generated report summarizing new bugs, closed ones, and patch submissions. http://search.gmane.org/?author=status%40bugs.python.orggroup=gmane.comp.python.develsort=date Although unmaintained since 2002, the Cetus collection of Python hyperlinks retains a few gems. 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://code.activestate.com/recipes/langs/python/ Many Python conferences around the world are in preparation. Watch this space for links to them. Among several Python-oriented RSS/RDF feeds available, see: http://www.python.org/channews.rdf For more, see: http://www.syndic8.com/feedlist.php?ShowMatch=pythonShowStatus=all The old
Dr. Dobb's Python-URL! - weekly Python news and links (Aug 23)
QOTW: Because there's no chance that the original request is sane. - Georg Brandl (responding to a question involving a Banana) this is one of your last chances to test the new code in 2.5 before the final release. *Please* try this release out and let us know about any problems you find - Anthony Baxter, Python Release Manager sum() is for numbers. It doesn't work with strings for your protection. http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/browse_thread/thread/e782a88bf5b2f911/ Parsing valid email addresses is hard. http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/browse_thread/thread/dfb305247edd7c6c/ Q: How do I make my code python 3000 compatible? A: Wait for python 3000. http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/browse_thread/thread/8aee8423747c094d/ The C++ STL can't match python's speed in some applications. http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/browse_thread/thread/94fed9a76015a5e4/ David Wahler is no longer out of the office. http://groups.google.com/groups/search?q=David+Wahler+out+of+office Releases of Note Python 2.5 Release Candidate 1 See http://www.python.org/2.5/ byteplay - a python bytecode assembler/disassembler http://wiki.python.org/moin/ByteplayDoc ratfun-2.3 Polynomials and Ration Function library http://calcrpnpy.sourceforge.net/ratfun.html PyYAML-3.04 YAML parser and emitter for Python http://pyyaml.org/wiki/PyYAML Upcoming Community Events Plone Conference 2006, October 25-27 (Seattle, Washington) http://plone.org/events/conferences/seattle-2006 Open Source Developers Conference Dec 5-8 (Melbourne, Australia) http://www.osdc.com.au/ 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. For far, FAR more Python reading than any one mind should absorb, much of it quite interesting, several pages index much of the universe of Pybloggers. http://lowlife.jp/cgi-bin/moin.cgi/PythonProgrammersWeblog http://www.planetpython.org/ http://mechanicalcat.net/pyblagg.html 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 Python411 indexes podcasts ... to help people learn Python ... Updates appear more-than-weekly: http://www.awaretek.com/python/index.html Steve Bethard, Tim Lesher, and Tony Meyer continue the marvelous tradition early borne by Andrew Kuchling, Michael Hudson and Brett Cannon 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/ 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/python/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. http://www.python.org/psf/ Among the ways you can support PSF is with a donation. http://www.python.org/psf/donate.html Kurt B. Kaiser publishes a weekly report on faults and patches. http://www.google.com/groups?as_usubject=weekly%20python%20patch Although unmaintained since 2002, the Cetus collection of Python hyperlinks retains a few gems. 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
Re: Dr. Dobb's Python-URL! - weekly Python news and links (Aug 23)
Jack Diederich wrote: David Wahler is no longer out of the office. http://groups.google.com/groups/search?q=David+Wahler+out+of+office LOL. That's the best part this week! :) -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
Re: Dr. Dobb's Python-URL! - weekly Python news and links (Aug 23)
Jack Diederich wrote: QOTW: Because there's no chance that the original request is sane. - Georg Brandl (responding to a question involving a Banana) Looks like I'm trying to fulfil my bot duties from time to time ;) this is one of your last chances to test the new code in 2.5 before the final release. *Please* try this release out and let us know about any problems you find - Anthony Baxter, Python Release Manager sum() is for numbers. It doesn't work with strings for your protection. http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/browse_thread/thread/e782a88bf5b2f911/ Parsing valid email addresses is hard. http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/browse_thread/thread/dfb305247edd7c6c/ Q: How do I make my code python 3000 compatible? A: Wait for python 3000. http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/browse_thread/thread/8aee8423747c094d/ The C++ STL can't match python's speed in some applications. http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/browse_thread/thread/94fed9a76015a5e4/ David Wahler is no longer out of the office. http://groups.google.com/groups/search?q=David+Wahler+out+of+office Thanks for pointing that out, Jack ;) Georg -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
Re: Dr. Dobb's Python-URL! - weekly Python news and links (Aug 23)
John Salerno wrote: Jack Diederich wrote: David Wahler is no longer out of the office. http://groups.google.com/groups/search?q=David+Wahler+out+of+office LOL. That's the best part this week! :) Can anyone remember when David Wahler got back? regards Steve -- Steve Holden +44 150 684 7255 +1 800 494 3119 Holden Web LLC/Ltd http://www.holdenweb.com Skype: holdenweb http://holdenweb.blogspot.com Recent Ramblings http://del.icio.us/steve.holden -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
