Dr. Dobb's Python-URL! - weekly Python news and links (Dec 25)

QOTW: "Python, the language that wraps tightly around a problem and
swallows it whole." -- Raymond Hettinger



Because it is so important, this link is re-posted for the future
(originally appeared in the December 15 Python-Url! posting by
Cameron Laird): Martin Bless summarizes in an extremely valuable
post what you need to know to generate Python-related executable
binaries targeted for Windows*.
http://groups-beta.google.com/group/...f29284d1e031c7

Mark English asks about running a tk GUI using a background thread.
http://groups-beta.google.com/group/...8d0a962f3fba49

You can register for PyCon DC 2005 on the web.
http://www.python.org/pycon/2005/register.html

A reminder to those who don't restart their editors while running
their scripts: you are probably looking for reload().
http://groups-beta.google.com/group/...d52e7b2dc4e278

Pointers to a handful of "graphics drawing" toolkits, hopefully to
result in a learning tool for sorting algorithms in Python.
http://groups-beta.google.com/group/...ed1f1e9b7e8063

Importing binary modules from ZIPs by Thomas Heller.
http://groups-beta.google.com/group/...37adb498126c0a

For the masochistic among us, a 120+ message thread on the history
of BASIC, Python, and why BASIC is probably not the first language
one should learn.
http://groups-beta.google.com/group/...30ea9521effd09

timbot exhibits a concrete instance of the long-conjectured
universal follow-up, that is, a post which mis-answers all
confusion equally well. Merry Christmas to you, too.
http://groups-beta.google.com/group/...72b72906740e8f

Diez B. Roggisch asks about decorator peculiarities and receives
a clarified version of his decorators in function and class form.
http://groups-beta.google.com/group/...9f86a5f2af15a9

Mike Meyer proposes a rational number module for Python.
http://groups-beta.google.com/group/...74c5329e4004eb

Stephen Kellet announces a thread and lock validation tool for
Python and its test-oriented fans.
http://groups-beta.google.com/group/...fa265b1bd16048

SPE version 0.7.0.a is released.
http://groups-beta.google.com/group/...1e84bb54aa4d9d

PythonCAD 20 appears.
http://groups-beta.google.com/group/...83a14bdbd806e2

Python is now available on NokiaS60 phones.
http://groups-beta.google.com/group/...b1044d96b83962




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Everything Python-related 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
marvelous 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 newsgroup weekly.
http://groups.google.com/groups?oi=d...ython.announce

Brett Cannon continues the marvelous tradition established by
Andrew Kuchling and Michael Hudson of intelligently summarizing
action on the python-dev mailing list once every other week.
http://www.python.org/dev/summary/

The Python Package Index catalogues packages.
http://www.python.org/pypi/

The somewhat older Vaults of Parnassus ambitiously collects references
to all sorts of 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 Business Forum "further[s] the interests of companies
that base their business on ... Python."
http://www.python-in-business.org

Python Success Stories--from air-traffic control to on-line
match-making--can inspire you or decision-makers to whom you're
subject with a vision of what the language makes practical.
http://www.pythonology.com/success

The Python Software Foundation (PSF) has replaced the Python
Consortium as an independent nexus of activity. It has official
responsibility for Python's development and maintenance.
http://www.python.org/psf/
Among the ways you can support PSF is with a donation.
http://www.python.org/psf/donate.html

Kurt B. Kaiser publishes a weekly report on faults and patches.
http://www.google.com/groups?as_usub...python%20patch

Cetus collects Python hyperlinks.
http://www.cetus-links.org/oo_python.html

Python FAQTS
http://python.faqts.com/

The Cookbook is a collaborative effort to capture useful and
interesting recipes.
http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/Cookbook/Python

Among several Python-oriented RSS/RDF feeds available are
http://www.python.org/channews.rdf
http://bootleg-rss.g-blog.net/pythonware_com_daily.pcgi
http://python.de/backend.php
For more, see
http://www.syndic8.com/feedlist.php?...ShowStatus=all
The old Python "To-Do List" now lives principally in a
SourceForge reincarnation.
http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?atid...70&func=browse
http://python.sourceforge.net/peps/pep-0042.html

The online Python Journal is posted at pythonjournal.cognizor.com.
and
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

Archive probing tricks of the trade:
http://groups.google.com/groups?oi=d...python&num=100
http://groups.google.com/groups?meta...ang.pyth on.*

Previous - (U)se the (R)esource, (L)uke! - messages are listed here:
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http://groups.google.com/groups?oi=djq&as_q=+Python-URL!&as_ugroup=comp.lang.python


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> QOTW: "Python, the language that wraps tightly around a problem and
> swallows it whole." -- Raymond Hettinger

that's taken from an old UnixWorld article by Aaron Watters, from 1995:

http://www.networkcomputing.com/unix...l/005/005.html

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Fredrik Lundh