From:	 "Dean Goodmanson" <ponderor@lycos.com>
To:	 Dr.Dobb's.Python-URL.distribution@starbase.neosoft.com
Subject: Dr. Dobb's Python-URL! - weekly Python news and links (Apr  9)
Date:	 Tue, 9 Apr 2002 10:40:32 -0500 (CDT)

QOTW:  "If you have numerous objects that are conceptually similar, so
that it makes sense to name them sequentially, then you *really* want
to put them in a list or dictionary instead.

The same thing is true of almost *every* use of exec or eval() -- it
seems handy, but if you look for it, there's a better solution to your
real problem."   Jeff Shannon

    
    PEP 285: during a week in which sqrt(False) was computed in all
    seriousness, we can safely conclude bool is not a black and white issue.
        http://groups.google.com/groups?q=%22PEP%20285&hl=en&sa=N&tab=wg
        http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-list/2002-April/097312.html
    
    A quick round of options for printer output
        http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-list/2002-April/097043.html
    
    Once again, for the record: the mandatory change in the way division
    works is going to be in 3.0.
        http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-list/2002-April/097302.html
    
    A survey contrast of Python and C++
        http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-list/2002-April/096465.html
    
    Large project wxPython testimonials
        http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-list/2002-April/097175.html
    
    Alex Martelli: "Why don't we start thinking of a similarly dual-tracked Python -- one track aiming at stability ...  one aiming at frequent releases, innovation,
    etc."
        http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-list/2002-April/096866.html
    **Discussion moved to Python-Dev:**
        http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev
    
    _The Perl Review_ does Python
        http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-list/2002-April/096602.html
    Python interest group for the Los Angeles area
        http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-list/2002-April/096896.html
    
    
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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  
    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.

    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.org/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
     
    The online Python Journal is posted at pythonjournal.cognizor.com.
    editor@pythonjournal.com and editor@pythonjournal.cognizor.com
    welcome submission of material that helps people's understanding
    of Python use, and offer Web presentation of your work.

    *Py: the Journal of the Python Language*
        http://www.pyzine.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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