From: "Dean Goodmanson" <ponderor@lycos.com> To: python-list@python.org Subject: Dr. Dobb's Python-URL! - weekly Python news and links (Apr 30) Date: 30 Apr 2002 10:10:50 -0500 QOTW: "you really can't change anything without breaking something for someone." -Tim Peters "Later I will show a way to declare the types strongly and statically enough to satisfy the most ardent Java or C# masochist." -Paul Prescod http://www.xml.com/pub/a/2002/04/24/google.html "BTW, this is one thing I love about the Python community. Ask a stupid question and you get good and helpful answers." -Chris Spencer NotImplemented vs. NotImplementedError http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-list/2002-April/100707.html Makin' like a beaver http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-list/2002-April/101115.html Floating point frustrations revisited for x.00000000000000000n'th time: http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-list/2002-April/100619.html SHA-based encryption function in Python discussed http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-list/2002-April/100314.html List begun to provide logic programming and constraint-propagation features in Python: http://www.logilab.org/python-logic/ Context sensitive help for prefered string notation http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-list/2002-April/100151.html ======================================================================== 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.* Previous - (U)se the (R)esource, (L)uke! - messages are listed here: http://www.ddj.com/topics/pythonurl/ http://purl.org/thecliff/python/url.html (dormant) or http://groups.google.com/groups?oi=djq&as_q=+Python-URL!&as_ugroup=comp.lang.python Suggestions/corrections for next week's posting are always welcome. [http://www.egroups.com/list/python-url-leads/ is hibernating. Just e-mail us ideas directly.] To receive a new issue of this posting in e-mail each Monday morning, ask <claird@neosoft.com> to subscribe. Mention "Python-URL!". -- The Python-URL! Team-- Dr. Dobb's Journal (http://www.ddj.com) is pleased to participate in and sponsor the "Python-URL!" project. -- Cameron Laird <Cameron@Lairds.com> Business: http://www.Phaseit.net Personal: http://starbase.neosoft.com/~claird/home.html -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list