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From: "Cameron Laird" <claird@neosoft.com>
To: Dr.Dobb's.Python-URL.distribution@starbase.neosoft.com
Subject: Dr. Dobb's Python-URL! - weekly Python news and links (Dec 3)
Date: Mon, 3 Dec 2001 08:20:25 -0600 (CST)
"My ideals for a software development process are visibility,
extensibility and mobility: I want to know exactly what code is
doing, I want to be able to add new capabilities without
harming other code that depends on old behaviors, and I want to
be able to redeploy something that's known to work into other
situations where it might also be useful. I saw the industry
moving in these directions when Lisp and Smalltalk made forays
toward enterprise adoption in the early 1990s, but the pendulum
quickly swung back from these flexible tools--to get us stuck
in the immobile, brittle complexity of platform-specific C++
and Windows DLL Hell." Peter Coffee (November 29, 2001 //
Volume 1, Issue 22)
"Python is simply the best combination of technical excellence
and eminent practicality of any programming language available
today." Patrick K. O'Brien <URL: http://www.orbtech.com/ >
"You will want to use a self-documenting language that is easy to modify.
Something where you can try out many different changes quickly, and see
what works best. Or better yet, where many people can try out their own
changes and see what works for them. ... Python is rad." Jonathon Gardner
http://groups.google.com/groups?th=c41ef1a1c97ff405
Peter Norvig artfully addresses Infrequently Answered Questions.
http://www.norvig.com/python-iaq.html
The Open Source Initiative approves Python's license.
http://www.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=01/11/30/1221256
It's timely to remind readers of the effbot's correction of
common errors in importing.
http://effbot.org/guides/import-confusion.htm
Big-bucks Brio drops JavaScript in favor of Python.
http://groups.google.com/groups?th=d0af1bb41e0edf7a
Python not enough for you? 'Wish some syntactic element
interpreted regular expressions for you? Don't wait for a
PEP; just write your own class to implement the behavior.
http://groups.google.com/groups?th=ce3ae749e3f8b1a6
Garbage collection just works, and should occupy the attention
of few day-to-day developers. If you must know more, though,
Andrew Dalke and Michael Hudson start you in the right direction.
http://groups.google.com/groups?th=8e25a97b7ed99473
'Need bytecode assembly? Michael Hudson's "crappy" bytecodehacks
is all that's available until Jeremy Hylton's full-blown compiler
becomes available.
http://groups.google.com/groups?th=514a1af905cf4cf
Weaklists are good for publisher/subscriber implementations, among
others.
http://groups.google.com/groups?th=eabf527474a168f8
Have an interest in "small, fast secure sockets"? Bryan Mongeau's
CryptKit can help. Note the esoteric considerations of Paul Rubin
and others for specialized attacks.
http://groups.google.com/groups?th=5751f78c7270f2b3
http://groups.google.com/groups?th=66aaa2339c201d42
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Everything 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
daily python url
http://www.pythonware.com/daily
comp.lang.python.announce announces new Python software. Be
sure to scan this newly-revitalized newsgroup at least weekly.
http://groups.google.com/groups?oi=djq&as_ugroup=comp.lang.python.announce
Michael Hudson continued Andrew Kuchling's marvelous tradition
of summarizing action on the python-dev mailing list once every
other week, into July 2001. Any volunteers to re-start this
valuable series?
http://starship.python.net/crew/mwh/summaries/
http://www.amk.ca/python/dev
The Vaults of Parnassus ambitiously collect 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/
The Python Software Foundation has replaced the Python Consortium
as an independent nexus of activity
http://www.python.org/psf/
Cetus does much of the same
http://www.cetus-links.de/oo_python.html
Python FAQTS
http://python.faqts.com/
The old Python "To-Do List" now lives principally in a
SourceForge reincarnation.
http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?atid=355470&group_id=5470&func=browse
http://python.sourceforge.net/peps/pep-0042.html
Python Journal is at work on its second issue
http://www.pythonjournal.com
Links2Go is a new semi-automated link collection; it's impressive
what AI can generate
http://www.links2go.com/search?search=python
Tenth International Python Conference
http://www.python10.org
Archive probing tricks of the trade:
http://groups.google.com/groups?oi=djq&as_ugroup=comp.lang.python&num=100
http://groups.google.com/groups?meta=site%3Dgroups%26group%3Dcomp.lang.python.*
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