Python-URL! - weekly Python news and links (Nov 24)
QOTW: ... it's generally accepted that COM sucks rocks through straws, so explore alternatives when they're available ;-) - Chris Withers http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/msg/29577c851ceed167 From nothing to a complete working program - Peter Otten on stepwise refinement: http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/t/f6f44b646af5b09e/8f59b2585da524a1?#8f59b2585da524a1 Handling whitespace in command line arguments: http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/t/9a828279953b45a2/ Recognizing hex arguments in the command line: http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/t/31d4c9386291c/ A pipeline of Python programs: http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/t/cc06520602ae3f42/ Calling Python functions from Excel http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/t/83aa60666c555d87/ The scope of interactive commands: =20 http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/t/3f0d7607ed5a4a78/ List comprehensions and slice assignments - which are the corresponding operations for dictionaries? http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/t/7aa443ac48f58851/ The precise semantics of [:]=20 http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/t/84b5ec30cdd26cde/ The 'with' statement doesn't allow () for implicit line continuation: http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.python.general/645508 Grant Edwards on the best way to get help from this group :) http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/t/b8a0c32cae495522/21e80ac383745d88?#21e80ac383745d88 Finding the root cause of slowness when sorting certain objects: http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/t/44d80224360e085/ The fastest alternative to list.extend() http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/t/614bfc36a09d9ab7/ A library for bijective mappings: http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/t/785d100681f7d101/ GUI builders reviewed: http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/t/3db5b18d77974b8/ A long thread started two weeks ago: is Python not scalable enough for Google? http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/t/ceef2ae6b4472b61/ 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 site: 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-URL! - weekly Python news and links (Nov 24)
QOTW: One of the reasons for Python's continue march towards world domina- tion (allow me my fantasies) is its consistent simplicity. Those last two words would be my candidate for the definition of 'Pythonicity'. - Steve Holden http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/msg/e2518ea8388ca1c5 The last Release Candidate (RC3) for Python 3.0 is available http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/t/fbb62e9c9a08c817/ Survey: which dynamic features of Python do you use most? http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/t/bdb39a1a4947cdd8/ Beginners looking for problems/challenges/exercises to do: http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/t/2b8a0b4ffdbdffbf/ Call-by-Object strikes again! This time, a functional mind asks why unrelated functions are allowed to modify the internal state of an object: http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/t/35511397ad7748cc/ How to detect whether a dictionary has been modified http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/t/3632f2407640e759/ Function default arguments are only evaluated when the function is defined. Is it intuitive? Ways to change the current behaviour. http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/t/2e01cc9ce899eb6e/ http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/t/1209ebf18a5ec561/ Installing Python on Windows Vista may require using the Administrator account http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/t/a745ed3df47e1be9/ Elegant ways to execute a function at most n times or until succeeds: http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/t/10d651c2a0eb082e/ __cmp__ is gone in Python 3 - how to implement a total ordering in a simple way? http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/t/2a672f960e595c76/ 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 enthusiats: 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/ 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/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:
