Python-URL! - weekly Python news and links (Dec 18)
QOTW: "XML. Almost as good as plain text for grepping." - Joe Mason "Where there's IP, there's a way." - Kyler Laird, on network programming Linked lists, deques, and iteration over a mutating container: http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/browse_thread/thread/1017de91323d9e23/ Containers should compare themselves using only their contained objects's available comparison operators: http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/browse_thread/thread/65bb28d2adf119d9/ The distinction between methods and callable attributes: http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/browse_thread/thread/7943ab9f93854eb6/ Discussing alternative loop constructs: http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/browse_thread/thread/f45f2b1dc4b0ff69/ Analyzing slow code for loading data, and trying to improve it, with general tips on optmization: http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/browse_thread/thread/4e5c8d57050b0beb/ Unexpected floating point rounding errors: http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/browse_thread/thread/37e780f3ba6f2e9b/ Improving the Python core (JIT compilation and others), and how the development process works (a long thread started last week) http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/browse_thread/thread/7a4d66af89ea322b/ Ways to do inter-process communication: http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/browse_thread/thread/85f7a872b9c87fb2/ The csv module: examples, improvements, and complaints about lack of documentation: http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/browse_thread/thread/e3a433761c35b245/ Is Python really a "scripting language"? (advocacy) http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/browse_thread/thread/9e9140f455bc5b3c/ Looping two iterables at once: http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/browse_thread/thread/e484378334843494/ zip() as its own inverse: http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/browse_thread/thread/1c055c6d70950a43/ Python compared to Java http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/browse_thread/thread/c9fa686ca37c86f2/ 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. 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/groups?oi=djq&as_ugroup=comp.lang.python.announce Python411 indexes "podcasts ... to help people learn Python ..." Updates appear more-than-weekly: http://www.awaretek.com/python/index.html Steve Bethard continues the marvelous tradition early borne by Andrew Kuchling, Michael Hudson, Brett Cannon, Tony Meyer, and Tim Lesher 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/ 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 a
Re: Python-URL! - weekly Python news and links (Dec 18)
"Kay Schluehr" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Paul Boddie wrote: > > > Meanwhile, the EuroPython planners get ahead of themselves, thinking about > > conference venues as far in the future as 2010, if not 20010! > > Python 20010. It was a nice conference although a bit lame on the first > day. My favourite talks were: > > Trevor Stent: "Whitespace as a universal constant" > Mathais Fendro: "Snake gods and how they tamed chaons and simili" > Taumaturg 7: "Technologia inversa. A short history of holistic > semantics" > > There was also some interesting short talk about wormhole calculus. > Unfortunetely I've forgotten the name of the lecturer. Maybe I was just > too fascinated by his appeal as a small spinning bubble, shining in > rainbow colors. Lovely! - thanks for the update - I'm sorry I couldn't make it in time. - Hendrik -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
Re: Python-URL! - weekly Python news and links (Dec 18)
Paul Boddie wrote: > Meanwhile, the EuroPython planners get ahead of themselves, thinking about > conference venues as far in the future as 2010, if not 20010! Python 20010. It was a nice conference although a bit lame on the first day. My favourite talks were: Trevor Stent: "Whitespace as a universal constant" Mathais Fendro: "Snake gods and how they tamed chaons and simili" Taumaturg 7: "Technologia inversa. A short history of holistic semantics" There was also some interesting short talk about wormhole calculus. Unfortunetely I've forgotten the name of the lecturer. Maybe I was just too fascinated by his appeal as a small spinning bubble, shining in rainbow colors. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
Python-URL! - weekly Python news and links (Dec 18)
QOTW: "c.l.python is just a small speck at the outer parts of the python universe. most python programmers don't even read this newsgroup, except, perhaps, when they stumble upon it via a search engine." -- Fredrik Lundh (on comp.lang.python, prompting the editor to offer greetings to those of you who are not reading Python-URL! via that channel) http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/msg/4d73a2da72c87226 "That's the kind of features I have in mind, and the best thing is that conceptually a lot of the work consists of connecting dots that already out there. But as there are so many of them, a few extra pencils would be quite welcome " -- Willem Broekema (on comp.lang.python, referring to the ongoing CLPython - Python in Common Lisp - project) http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/msg/b72788cc5569d778 http://trac.common-lisp.net/clpython/ Registration for PyCon (the North American Python conference) is now open: http://pycon.blogspot.com/2006/12/registration-for-pycon-2007-is-now.html http://us.pycon.org/TX2007/Registration Meanwhile, the EuroPython planners get ahead of themselves, thinking about conference venues as far in the future as 2010, if not 20010! http://mail.python.org/pipermail/europython/2006-December/006158.html http://mail.python.org/pipermail/europython/2006-December/006161.html PyMite - the embedded Python interpreter - gets an update: http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.python.announce/msg/b335a476d4033292 http://pymite.python-hosting.com/ This week's Python advocacy discovery had to be the revelation that YouTube runs on Python, helping to diminish concerns about Python's suitability for large scale Internet applications and services: http://sayspy.blogspot.com/2006/12/youtube-runs-on-python.html http://www.python.org/about/quotes/#youtube-com Of related things "flexible and fast", development in the Cherokee Web server community produces the 100% Python implementation of SCGI: the logically named PySCGI. http://www.alobbs.com/news/1193 And on the advocacy front, volunteers are sought to write informative materials (flyers, whitepapers) promoting Python in different domains: http://wiki.python.org/moin/AdvocacyWritingTasks Video conferencing on the OLPC (One Laptop Per Child) prototype takes shape with a mixture of technologies and "a few lines of Python": http://www.robot101.net/2006/12/12/telepathy-and-olpc/ After an influx of competing XML technologies and now drifting free without an appointed maintainer, is the era of PyXML over? http://mail.python.org/pipermail/xml-sig/2006-December/011620.html On a more administrative level, the Python Software Foundation (PSF) invites nominations for new directors: http://pyfound.blogspot.com/2006/12/call-for-nominations-of-psf-directors.html The PSF also suggests that you might consider a donation towards their work of protecting the Python copyrights and trademarks: http://pyfound.blogspot.com/2006/12/remember-psf-in-your-year-end.html 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. For far, FAR more Python reading than any one mind should absorb, much of it quite interesting, several pages index much of the universe of Pybloggers. http://lowlife.jp/cgi-bin/moin.cgi/PythonProgrammersWeblog http://www.planetpython.org/ http://mechanicalcat.net/pyblagg.html The Python Papers aims to publish "the efforts of Python enthusiats". http://pythonpapers.org/ comp.lang.python.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 Python411 indexes "podcasts ... to help people learn Python ..." Updates appear more-than-weekly: http://www.awaretek.com/python/index.html Steve Bethard continues the marvelous tradition early borne by Andrew Kuchling, Michael Hudson, Brett Cannon, Tony Meyer, and Tim Lesher of intelligently summarizing action o
