Dr. Dobb's Python-URL! - weekly Python news and links (Dec 2)

2005-12-04 Thread Cameron Laird
QOTW: "Python makes it easy to implement algorithms." - casevh "Most of the discussion of immutables here seems to be caused by newcomers wanting to copy an idiom from another language which doesn't have immutable variables. Their real problem is usually with binding, not immutability." - Mike Me

PyCon 2006 registration now open

2005-12-04 Thread A.M. Kuchling
Registration for PyCon 2006 is now open; go to the registration form at http://www.python.org/pycon/2006/register.html to register for the conference and for tutorials. At this time the planned events for PyCon have all been announced: * Talks: http://wiki.python.org/moin/PyCon2006/Talks

[ANN] rpncalc-2.2 RPN Calculator for Python

2005-12-04 Thread Raymond L. Buvel
The rpncalc package adds an interactive Reverse Polish Notation (RPN) interpreter to Python. This interpreter allows the use of Python as an RPN calculator. You can easily switch between the RPN interpreter and the standard Python interpreter. Home page: http://calcrpnpy.sourceforge.net/ Chang