From: Skip Montanaro <skip@pobox.com> To: Dr.Dobb's.Python-URL.distribution@starbase.neosoft.com Subject: Dr. Dobb's Python-URL! - weekly Python news and links (Nov 1) Date: Thu, 1 Nov 2001 09:02:08 -0600 (CST) QOTWs: "Maybe the next slogan for the 10th International Python Conference should be 'Python has nothing to hide.'" F Basegmez "... [F]or now at least the cost-effective way to deal with that (in any language) is good testing. Your code will be tested either way, it's just a question of whether it is done by you or your customers." Dave Brueck "With the launch of Windows XP, there's no better time to think about upgrading your system memory." ZiffDavis-transported advertisement "Python ... finds itself used as a work horse or even a race horse. Neither type of horse belongs in the glue factory." Paul Rubin Emile van Sebille unearths an interesting Python Eggs page at http://www.rimbault.net/python/ Emile also writes a workalike for the ReXX translate() function: http://groups.google.com/groups?th=a0ffa6d492327146 Dave Brueck presents useful software development guidelines in response to a question about using Python in a commercial, team environment. Paul Rubin gets a quote-of-the-week nod from the timbot as well. http://groups.google.com/groups?th=673bf7e4b4a0ec1d Python's introspective interactivity is waaaaaayyy cool. http://groups.google.com/groups?th=2e24faedfe88aa4c Drew Csillag announces the release of SkunkWeb 3.1.3. http://skunkweb.sourceforge.net/ OSE is a generic application framework suitable for constructing general purpose applications, distributed systems and web based services. http://ose.sourceforge.net Martin von Loewis shows how to use random.shuffle to select items at random from a list. http://groups.google.com/groups?th=37fda6c40067f7a Two threads run about escaping strings for use in SQL statements: http://groups.google.com/groups?th=859eb6fb477658ca http://groups.google.com/groups?th=a5c057fededcb6 ======================================================================== 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 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.