Dr. Dobb's Python-URL! - weekly Python news and links (May 22)

2006-05-22 Thread Peter Otten
QOTW: It's hard to make a mistake by having too many short and simple functions. And much too easy to make them when you have too few ;-) - Thomas Bartkus Argh, the following is valid Python syntax: assert a is not b - XXX in-progress - Armin Rigo (found on Michael Hudson's blog) A GREAT

Dr. Dobb's Python-URL! - weekly Python news and links (May 15)

2006-05-15 Thread Peter Otten
QOTW: It seems if you lurk here [on comp.lang.python] long enough you eventually get all you[r] questions answered without even asking! - Ted Landis We're going to learn from Python. JavaScript is pretty close to Python - Brendan Eich Scott David Daniels shows how to find all occurrences

Dr. Dobb's Python-URL! - weekly Python news and links (May 8)

2006-05-09 Thread Peter Otten
QOTW: If you can find a workable solution not involving metaclasses and decorators, don't use them - Michele Simionato Newest Beautiful Soup beta solves everyone's problems that I know of. - Leonard Richardson Jeff Croft gives a good introduction to the Django web framework. Don't let

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

2006-03-20 Thread Peter Otten
QOTW: Anything with 'Python' in its name can't market Python well. - Iain Bicking Who really cares whether NASA uses Python? One thing I learned from having to sit through too many software marketing presentations is that organizations like NASA are to software what the Library of Congress is to