Python-URL! - weekly Python news and links (Jun 7)

2011-06-07 Thread Cameron Laird
[Drafted by Gabriel Genellina.] QOTW: "'Reminds me of the catch-phrase from the first Pirates of the Caribbean movie: 'It's more of a guideline than a rule.'" - Tim Roberts, 2011-05-27, on the "mutator-methods-return-None" Announcing two maintenance releases (including security fixes): 2.5.

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

2006-06-06 Thread Cameron Laird
QOTW: "You can gain substantial speed-ups in very certain cases, but the main point of Pyrex is ease of wrapping, not of speeding-up." - Simon Percivall "The rule of thumb for all your Python Vs C questions is ... 1.) Choose Python by default. . . ." - Ravi Teja Do you remember Python's ea

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

2005-06-09 Thread Simon Brunning
On 6/9/05, Joal Heagney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Great community resource. (Are the old weekly URL's stored somewhere > other than the newsgroup archives?) - but that requires a subscription. I tend to pick up my Dr. Dobbs from a newsagent, so I just use

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

2005-06-09 Thread Joal Heagney
Ville Vainio wrote: >>"Fred" == Fred Pacquier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Fred> Same here : thanks for letting us get away with being > Fred> lazy(er) ! :-) > > Ditto. As someone who's done a couple of p-url's, I can say it's quite > a bit of work to find the interesting tidbit

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

2005-06-08 Thread Ville Vainio
> "Fred" == Fred Pacquier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Fred> Same here : thanks for letting us get away with being Fred> lazy(er) ! :-) Ditto. As someone who's done a couple of p-url's, I can say it's quite a bit of work to find the interesting tidbits from the depths of 500-post threa

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

2005-06-08 Thread Fred Pacquier
"Tim Golden" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said : > Just wanted to say thank you to Simon and all the > other people who have edited the Python-URL! weekly > digest over the years. Despite my being a pretty much > constant reader of c.l.py and various blogs and other > on-line sources, I still look forward

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

2005-06-07 Thread Simon Brunning
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

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

2005-06-07 Thread Tim Golden
[Simon Brunning] | Subject: Dr. Dobb's Python-URL! - weekly Python news and links (Jun 7) [... snipped whole thing ...] Just wanted to say thank you to Simon and all the other people who have edited the Python-URL! weekly digest over the years. Despite my being a pretty much constant read

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

2005-06-07 Thread Simon Brunning
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