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

[Cameron Laird]

QOTW: "The advantage of using slices to extract a single element is that it
avoids IndexErrors for empty lists." Raymond Hettinger

http://groups.google.com/groups?th=44bd04fe85d02c19

"Usually when you feel that you need to generate instances with certain names
you are on the wrong track in translating the problem you need to solve into
a program. " Istvan Albert

http://groups.google.com/groups?frame=left&th=6ce53556b4307fb5

Michael Sparks, David Mertz, Patrick Maupin, Bengt Richter, and
others deepen discussion, mentioned last week, of greenlets,
co-routines, and related matters. Particularly note explanations
of confusing labels.

http://groups.google.com/groups?frame=left&th=ca4b3ec6501d42aa

Bengt Richter and Lonnie Princehouse provide substantial
examples of Python-based (lexical) parsing.

http://groups.google.com/groups?frame=left&th=795e46367a16d38

'Need to track every object in the solar system? Erik Max Francis'
Python coding makes it "simple but useful".

http://groups.google.com/groups?th=744df8e93a7a5e5e

Opportunity: if you'll be at this year's SANE in Amsterdam,
help proselytize at the Python Software Foundation stand.

http://groups.google.com/groups?th=c916b2fefd4e878d

Wayne Pierce bases nascent Security Advisor's security auditing on
filesystem and service scans. Python makes it all comprehensible.
http://groups.google.com/groups?th=4387aeb99f5c49d2

Alex Martelli provides a model for "self-updating" Python-coded
software.

http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=1gkazd2.1qm3g0u1l6b7lmN%25aleaxit%40yahoo.com

Of course, for Alex, "somedict.get(x , x) [is] a *frequent* Python idiom".

http://groups.google.com/groups?frame=left&th=3c7dc03a05fa8d1

Yet another distribution? Ubuntu Linux is an ambitious and
Python-oriented one.

http://www.ubuntulinux.org/

=============== =============== =============== =============== ============
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.pytho n.announce announces new Python software. Be
sure to scan this newsgroup weekly.

http://groups.google.com/groups?oi=djq&as_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.

http://www.python.org/psf/

Among the ways you can support PSF is with a donation.

http://www.python.org/psf/donate.html

Cetus collects Python hyperlinks.

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 several Python-oriented RSS/RDF feeds available are

http://www.python.org/channews.rdf

http://bootleg-rss.g-blog.net/pythonware_com_daily.pcgi

http://python.de/backend.php

For more, see
http://www.syndic8.com/feedlist.php?...ShowStatus=all
The old Python "To-Do List" now lives principally in a
SourceForge reincarnation.
http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?atid...70&func=browse

http://python.sourceforge.net/peps/pep-0042.html

The online Python Journal is posted at pythonjournal.c ognizor.com.
editor@pythonjo urnal.com and editor@pythonjo urnal.cognizor. com
welcome submission of material that helps people's understanding
of Python use, and offer Web presentation of your work.

*Py: the Journal of the Python Language*

http://www.pyzine.com

Archive probing tricks of the trade:

http://groups.google.com/groups?oi=djq&as_ugroup=comp.lang.python&num=100

http://groups.google.com/groups?meta=site%3Dgroups%26group%3Dcomp.lang.python.*

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