Python-URL! - weekly Python news and links (Mar 10)

2008-03-23 Thread Gabriel Genellina
QOTW: "My thumb has been putting two spaces after a period for 30 years, so the chances that it's going to change are rather slim. :)" - Grant Edwards "In the past, I used Matlab for prototyping, but over the last few years I have switched to a combination of numpy, scipy, matplotlib, and ipython

Python-URL! - weekly Python news and links (Mar 18)

2008-03-23 Thread Gabriel Genellina
QOTW: "Most people don't use Python by accident, and most people don't continue to use Python by accident" - Chris Hagner, during the talk "Why Python Sucks (But Works Great For Us)" at PyCon 2008 "I don't want a macro facility in the language _because_ it would be so cool." - Laura Creighton

Python-URL! - weekly Python news and links (Mar 3)

2008-03-23 Thread Gabriel Genellina
QOTW: "No, Google, I didn't want the Botswana daily news with its article on the Botswana National Front and another on a fellow arrested for having contraband python skins." - Martin Rineh, during his relentless search for Python's BNF http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/msg/8843

ANN: cssutils 0.9.5b2

2008-03-23 Thread Christof Hoeke
what is it -- A Python package to parse and build CSS Cascading Style Sheets. (Not a renderer though!) main changes 0.9.5b2 - **API CHANGE**: ``cssutils.parseURL`` has been renamed to ``parseUrl`` for consistency with ``getUrls`` or ``replaceUrls``. Parameter ``href``