Dr. Dobb's Python-URL! - weekly Python news and links (Apr 4)

QOTW: "Paraphrasing Occam, I would say 'don't multiply base classes without necessity'. ;)" - Michele Simionato "The world diversifies, the world congeals." - Raymond Hettinger (commenting on the fact that py.test happily runs unittest test suites) "I can think of no better reason for a programm

Dr. Dobb's Python-URL! - weekly Python news and links (Apr 11)

QOTW: "I think my code is clearer, but I wouldn't go so far as to say I'm violently opposed to your code. I save violent opposition for really important matters like which text editor you use." - Roy Smith "You need to recursively subdivide the cake until you have a piece small enough to fit in y

Dr. Dobb's Python-URL! - weekly Python news and links (Apr 18)

QOTW: "Darn. I finally say something that gets into Quote of the Week, and it's attributed to someone else!" -- Greg Ewing (we think) http://groups-beta.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/msg/15b836a557afccb2 "If there were something wrong with the API, Guido would have long since fired up the

Dr. Dobb's Python-URL! - weekly Python news and links (Apr 25)

QOTW: "Sure, but what about the case where his program is on paper tape and all he has for an editor is an ice pick?" - Grant Edwards "And in this case, you get improved usability *and* improved speed at the same time. That's the way it should be." - Fredrik Lundh The Simplest Possible Metac

Dr. Dobb's Python-URL! - weekly Python news and links (May 3)

QOTW: "The security 'droids have decided that since the MS Office Suite is a 'standard' application then software written in MS Office VBA must be 'safe.' Any other development environments (such as Java, Perl, Cygwin) are 'unsafe' and can't be installed." - Peter Olsen "There's nothing wrong with

Dr. Dobb's Python-URL! - weekly Python news and links (May 9)

QOTW: "It's not perfect, but then nobody in this thread has offered anything even remotely resembling perfect documentation for regular expressions yet. " - Peter Hansen "Python's flavor of OO is perfectly valid and usable, even though it doesn't follow the Java Holy Bible of Object Orientation (g

Dr. Dobb's Python-URL! - weekly Python news and links (May 16)

QOTW: "As you learn Python, you will find that your PHP code will improve, possibly becoming more and more concise until it disappears completely." - Jorey Bump (Responding to a quotaton of Sturgeon's law: "Ninety percent of everything is crap.") "fwiw, this is of course why google displays 10 res

Dr. Dobb's Python-URL! - weekly Python news and links (May 24)

QOTW: "If you're sick of answering newbie questions, and don't think you can do so politely, for the sake of the community, DON'T! You're not that necessary." - Joal Heagney "Who controls the runtime also controls the language." - Kay Schluehr Jake tells us about the \r control characte

Dr. Dobb's Python-URL! - weekly Python news and links (May 31)

QOTW: "Not tested but confident should be an oxymoron for a programmer." - Peter Otten (Asked "Is this unsurprising if I look at it right?") - "Yes; in general this is true across many domains for a very large number of referents of "it" :-)" - John Machin "Strong typing means there [are] a lot

Dr. Dobb's Python-URL! - weekly Python news and links (Jun 7)

QOTW: "[expletives deleted]" - John Machin, snipping a section of Perl code. "What sort of programmer are you? If it works on your computer, it's done, ship it!" - Grant Edwards Guido invites us to comment on PEP 343. This Python Enhancement Proposal includes a 'with' statement, allowin

Dr. Dobb's Python-URL! - weekly Python news and links (Jun 22)

QOTW: "Python is more concerned with making it easy to write good programs than difficult to write bad ones." - Steve Holden "Scientists build so that they can learn. Programmers and engineers learn so that they can build." - Magnus Lycka "It happens that old Java programmers make one module per

Dr. Dobb's Python-URL! - weekly Python news and links (Jun 29)

QOTW: "And what defines a 'python activist' anyway? Blowing up Perl installations worldwide?" - Ivan Van Laningham "Floating point is about nothing if not being usefully wrong." - Robert Kern Sibylle Koczian needs to sort part of a list. His first attempt made the natural mistake - sort

Dr. Dobb's Python-URL! - weekly Python news and links (Jul 5)

QOTW: "That's what I love in that news group. Someone comes with a stupid and arrogant question, and someone else answers in a calm and reasonable way." - Gustavo Niemeyer "After 25 years doing this, I've become something of a Luddite as far as fancy IDEs and non-standard features go... and a huge

Dr. Dobb's Python-URL! - weekly Python news and links (Jul 13)

QOTW: "The posts do share an erroneous, implied assumption that the investment in learning each language is equal. Python has a strong competitive advantage over Java and C++ in terms of learnability. A person can get up to speed in a few days with Python." - Raymond Hettinger "You know, this is

Dr. Dobb's Python-URL! - weekly Python news and links (Jul 20)

QOTW: "Discussing goto statements and Microsoft together is like mixing dynamite and gasoline." - DH '"Spaghetti" doesn't quite describe it. I've settled on "Lovecraftian": reading the code, you can't help but get the impression of writhing tentacles and impossible angles.' - Robert Kern Hig

Dr. Dobb's Python-URL! - weekly Python news and links (Jul 29)

QOTW: "Guido has marked the trail; don't ignore the signs unless you really know where you're going." - Raymond Hettinger 'Proverbs 28:14 JPS "Happy is the man that feareth alway; but he that hardeneth his heart shall fall into evil." Obviously an exhortation to not ignore raised exceptions with "

London Python Meetup, Wednesday the 4th of October

I'm organising another London Python meetup at The Stage Door, Waterloo, London SE1 8QA (see ) for Wednesday the 4th of October, anytime after work. Hope to see you there! -- Cheers, Simon B, [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-announce-l

London Python Meetup, Wednesday the 15th of November

Details here: . -- Cheers, Simon B [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.brunningonline.net/simon/blog/ -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-announce-list Support the Python Software Foundation: http://www.python.org/psf/donations.html

London Python meetup, Wednesday, October the 10th

ThoughtWorks UK (my employer) have given us the use of a room this time, so I'm looking for volunteer speakers, too. Details here: . -- Cheers, Simon B. [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- http://mail.python.org/

London Python meetup, Wednesday, December the 5th

Details here: http://tinyurl.com/2cvtlq -- Cheers, Simon B. [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.brunningonline.net/simon/blog/ GTalk: simon.brunning | MSN: small_values | Yahoo: smallvalues -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-announce-list Support the Python Software Foundation:

London Python Meetup, Tuesday May the 6th

It's doubly good time for a Python meet-up. Firstly, Django's Jacob Kaplan-Moss is in town. If I can coax him into speaking, I will. Secondly, what with the release of the Google App Engine, I expect a big increase in interest in Python in general. Details here: http://tinyurl.com/3snu66 -- Chee

Pre-Pycon London Python meetup, September the 2nd.

Details here: http://tinyurl.com/5btwsd -- Cheers, Simon B. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-announce-list Support the Python Software Foundation: http://www.python.org/psf/donations.html

Correction: London Python Meetup, Wednesday, October the 8th

2008/9/25 Simon Brunning <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Details here: http://tinyurl.com/44zvc4 Sorry - that's *Wednesday* the 8th. I shouldn't be allowed out on my own, I really shouldn't. -- Cheers, Simon B. [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listi