Python-URL! - 2002/10/14
by Erik Max Francis
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QOTW:
- Alex Martelli recommends Twisted to asyncore/Medusa users:
http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=XfJo9.22420%24Fz.656913%40news1.tin.it - Edward K. Ream posts his Amazon review of _The Python Cookbook_
(he gives it 5 of 5 stars):
http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=VFxp9.17764%24PS1.1995264%40kent.svc.tds.netThreads
- Anton Vredegoor asks about how to use GPL code without being bound
by the license, and receives a variety of well thought out
answers:
http://groups.google.com/groups?threadm=mailman.1034549898.1741.python-list%40python.org - Andrew Koenig asks a stylistic question about "concrete classes"
—classes that are merely static containers for data—and
receives a variety of interesting solutions, some including
metaclasses:
http://groups.google.com/groups?threadm=83elaui6md.fsf%40panacea.canonical.org - Manuel M. Garcia brings up issues about a particular type of
sorting task, and whether the decorate-sort-undecorate pattern is
applicable:
http://groups.google.com/groups?threadm=683equ4m09devfuqnp49r1a2b4fbu54om9%404ax.com - A question by Doug Fort about implementing a directory walking
tool using a generator sparks an interesting discussion about
generators and recursive functions:
http://groups.google.com/groups?threadm=Pine.GSO.4.21.0210130849040.122-100000%40supreme.pcug.org.au - Will Stuyvesant's question about realtime systems in Python leads
to a useful discussion of what a realtime system is and how it
relates to Python:
http://groups.google.com/groups?threadm=mailman.1034559558.32499.python-list%40python.orgSoftware
- Guido van Rossum announces the release of Python 2.2.2b1:
http://www.python.org/2.2.2/ - Quixote, a Python Web applications framework, releases version
0.5.1:
http://www.mems-exchange.org/software/quixote/ - Doug Fort releases version 0.1.1 of FixedPoint, an implementation
of fixed point objects which grew out of a posting by Tim Peters:
http://fixedpoint.sourceforge.net/ - Twisted Matrix Laboratories delivers a release candidate for their
1.0 Developer Platform:
http://www.twistedmatrix.com/ - Edward K. Ream announces version 3.7 of Leo, a programmer's
editor, a literate tool, and a data organizer and outliner, using
Python and Tcl/Tk.
http://sourceforge.net/projects/leo/ - Dave Abrahams announces the first release of the version 2
Boost.Python library, which enables interoperability between C++
and Python:
http://www.boost.org/libs/python/doc/index.html - HitMe! is a Python/PyGTK application designed for faciliating
speed reading:
http://o.k.pl/~michal/hitme/ - Python/Tk Empire Interface (PTkEI), a cross-platform client for
classic Empire, reaches version 1.16.0:
http://www.lfmm.org/ptkei/Meetings
- The Sydney Australia Python Interest Group has a meeting
scheduled for October 21 at the University of Technology, Sydney:
http://pig.slug.org.au/Resources
- The Wiki edition of Paul Boddie's Python Web Frameworks Overview
provides an overview of Web development and templating systems:
http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/moinmoin/WebProgramming
"Really, though, the GPL simply says, 'If you want to use our stuff
you have to make your stuff available on the same terms.' It always amuses
me to read people calling the FSF 'fascist' when they don't like the
restrictions the GPL places on usage."—Steve Holden
http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=r9Vo9.50570%24cG.46763%40fe04
"You could actually leave out the code, change the title to 'The Python Philosophy' and still have a really valuable book."—Doug Fort, on the *... Cookbook*
"[I]f grid computing is really just about freeing up unused computer cycles and saving money, whay are so many hardware vendors encouraging it?"—Robert McMillan
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