Dr. Dobb's Python-URL! - weekly Python news and links (Jul 12)

2006-07-11 Thread Cameron Laird
QOTW: "Write code, not usenet posts." - Fredrik Lundh "If an embedded return isn't clear, the method probably needs to be refactored with 'extract method' a few times until it is clear." - John Roth The comp.lang.python collective has become quite expert at answering "Which book should

Fredericksburg, VA ZPUG July 12: Jim Fulton's buildout package, Python + Fortran, roundtable

2006-07-11 Thread Gary Poster
(Apologies for the especially late notice; for some reason these announcements did not go out when I sent them Monday to python- announce-list and zope-announce) Please join us Wed., July 12, 7:30-9:00 PM, for another meeting of the Fredericksburg, VA Zope and Python User Group ("ZPUG"). We w

Subject: RELEASED Python 2.5 (beta 2)

2006-07-11 Thread Anthony Baxter
On behalf of the Python development team and the Python community, I'm happy to announce the second BETA release of Python 2.5. This is an *beta* release of Python 2.5. As such, it is not suitable for a production environment. It is being released to solicit feedback and hopefully discover bugs, a