Dr. Dobb's Python-URL! - weekly Python news and links (Aug 23)
Quinn Dunkan
The perennial unit testing questions arise: what should be tested?
how do you set up a testing environment? and how do you test GUIs?
http://groups.google.com/groups?th=3d937598aa164a8f,14
Continuing the interest in Python-aware editors last week, Alan
Green posts a list of python IDEs. Discussion ensues about why
some people like IDEs and some people don't:
http://groups.google.com/groups?th=424469e8ee7ab91f,14
"The PLEAC project plans to reimplement all of the programs from the
Perl Cookbook in a variety of other languages." Currently it is
incomplete.
http://groups.google.com/groups?th=f045f8be10734300,3
Announcements:
"PySpy does run-time visualization and analysis of Python software."
http://groups.google.com/groups?th=8fdcaace862828a3,8
"PythonCard is a software construction kit (in the spirit of Apple's
HyperCard) written in Python."
http://groups.google.com/groups?th=786b9d830b315c5d,4
"SciPy is an open source package that builds on the strengths of
Python and Numeric providing a wide range of fast scientific and
numeric functionality."
http://groups.google.com/groups?th=2312c152abad017c,1
"A work-in-progress design document for the Python-based SCons
software construction tool is now available at the SCons
documentation page:"
http://www.scons.org/doc.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
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 continues Andrew Kuchling's marvelous tradition
of summarizing action on the python-dev mailing list once every
other week.
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/
Python To-Do List anticipates some of Python's future direction
http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/todo.py
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.*
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