Dive Into Python the book

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Dive Into Python

Dive Into Python 09/08/2004 02:50 PM

Dive Into Python on paper

Dive Into Python on paper 07/20/2004 06:20 AM

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New Python Computer Science text book

New Python Computer Science text book 12/12/2003 08:57 PM

Python Programming: An Introduction to Computer Science is a new Computer Science text book designed for use in introduction to programming classes, written by John Zelle, who's Teaching with Python page . Kirby Urner recently posted a mostly positive review of the book to the Python Edu-SIG mailing list, which sparked an interesting discussion about Python's place in the CS curriculum.

Unsurprisingly, the one thing that isn't disputed on the Python Edu-SIG list is that Python is a superb first language for CS students. As I've mentioned before, I'm convinced that the reason so many of my fellow students seem to actively dislike programming is that they're introduction to it was via Java, a language that enforces a mentality of battling the compiler more than one of straight problem solving. Hopefully now that text books are beginning to appear Python will be considered more seriously by computer science departments around the world.

Python and XML: XML Namespaces Support
in Python Tools, Part Two

Python and XML: XML Namespaces Support
in Python Tools, Part Two 05/13/2004 07:55 PM
In his latest Python and XML column, Uche Ogbuji continues his tour of XML namespaces support in Python tools, focusing this time on 4Suite.

Python and XML: XML Namespaces Support
in Python Tools, Part Three

Python and XML: XML Namespaces Support
in Python Tools, Part Three 06/30/2004 07:31 PM
In this month's Python and XML column Uche Ogbuji examines the namespace support in ElementTree, PyRXPU, and libxml.

Dive

Dive 02/16/2004 05:19 PM

I don't know how many times we've passed the Seahorse Restaurant in Eira, but every time Jarkko would describe it as a 'classic dive'. Maybe there is a translation difference here as 'dive' usually is applied to pubs and diners of not quite the most pleasing reputation or patronage. It's slightly more damning than 'greasy spoon'.

We went there for dinner there the other night and, if this is a Finnish dive, then I want to see one on every corner. The food was hearty, delicious, served with understated but lovely presentation and reasonably priced. Jarkko ordered the herring steaks which made me rethink my lukewarm stance on herring and I had the breast of chicken served with the most delicious aura blue cheese sauce I've ever tasted. The pancakes with ice cream and jam for dessert were sublime. In the genre of Finnish cuisine, I don't think there is another restaurant that has such delicious, beautifully presented, reasonably priced food in a nice atmosphere like the Seahorse does. It's not listed in the travel guides so I presume that the people who go there like to keep it to themselves and I can't really blame them. :)

Dive Into SCP Pool

Dive Into SCP Pool 07/02/2004 02:54 PM
The swimming pool supply wholesaler lifts its second-quarter and full-year guidance.

Dive Into Markdown

Dive Into Markdown 04/09/2004 04:07 PM

Why Markdown?

Dive Into Panther

Dive Into Panther 10/28/2003 11:08 PM
Mark Pilgrim has penned a great review of several improvements and new features in Panther, covering (amongst other stuff) :

• Installer/Finder
• Process Management
• Disk Management
• Reporting
• Printing/Faxing
• Font Management
• User Management
• Networking
• Security

I'm hoping to get hold of Panther in the next few days, so I'll post my own observations here later this week. Also, looks like I underestimated the enthusiasm generated by Panther. Macminute has a great collection of stories and photos from Apple Stores around the world. If there'd been one in Newcastle I'd have been there...

Dive into XML: XML on the Web Has Failed

Dive into XML: XML on the Web Has Failed 07/21/2004 04:21 PM
In Mark Pilgrim's latest Dive into XML column he argues that most XML on the Web has failed utterly, miserably, completely.

Dive Into Remixing

Dive Into Remixing 06/05/2005 10:46 PM
I'm really enjoying the new toys I'm playing with on websites these days. As always, I wrote 'em up on the Six Apart site. (The Professional Network blog is where an average of two posts a day have escaped the black hole for the better part of a year now.)...

Venus set to dive in front of Sun

Venus set to dive in front of Sun 06/07/2004 03:41 PM
The planet Venus will pass across the face of our star on Tuesday - an event so rare it has occurred only six times since the invention of the telescope.

Dive into XML: Identifying Atom

Dive into XML: Identifying Atom 08/18/2004 06:58 PM
In his latest Dive into XML column, Mark Pilgrim reports on some of the hot topics in the IETF's development of Atom.

Dive for Keys Nearly Kills Mo. Man (AP)

Dive for Keys Nearly Kills Mo. Man (AP) 06/02/2004 05:11 PM
AP - A man who nearly drowned when using a garden hose to breathe while he tried to retrieve his keys from a lake will make other attempt — this time with a trained diver — on Thursday.

Backporting from Python 2.3 to Python
2.2

Backporting from Python 2.3 to Python
2.2 06/08/2004 11:18 PM

We have a home-grown templating system at work, which I intend to dedicate an entry to some time in the future. We originally wrote it in Python 2.2, but upgraded to Python 2.3 a while ago and have since been evolving our code in that environment. Today I found a need to load the most recent version of our templating system on to a small, long neglected application that had been running the original version ever since it had enough features to be usable.

Unfortunately, this application was running on a server that only had Python 2.2. Installing Python 2.3 would have been somewhat more painful here than on other servers we run for reasons I won't go in to, so I decided to have a go at getting our current code to run under the older Python version.

In the end, I only had to make three minor changes, all at the top of the file in question.

1. I added from __future__ import generators as the very first line of the file. We use generators (with the yield statement) in a few places - this feature was only properly added in Python 2.3, but was made available in Python 2.2 as a "future enhancement" through the aforementioned obscure import.

2. I added True, False = 1, 0 on the next line down. Surprisingly, Python 2.2 had no support for a boolean type and instead used a test for non-zero instead. The above line defines constants that behave enough like Python 2.3's True and False to avoid any problems.

3. I defined an enumerate function, which was introduced for real in Python 2.3. Here's the code I used:

   
   def enumerate(obj):
       for i, item in zip(range(len(obj)), obj):
           yield i, item 
   

All in all it only took around ten minutes to put the above together, after which the script worked just fine. It was interesting to see how our code had grown to rely on Python 2.3 features without us realising it.

Dive into XML: The Atom Link Model

Dive into XML: The Atom Link Model 06/16/2004 06:06 PM
In Mark Pilgrim's latest Dive Into XML column he explains the Atom linking model, which is based on the familiar HTML linking model but is more expressive and more flexible.

Pink Numbers [dive into mark]

Pink Numbers [dive into mark] 06/01/2004 05:45 AM
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Warning after dive trip shooting

Warning after dive trip shooting 07/04/2004 08:43 AM
A diver from the UK, robbed by bandits in Tanzania, warns people of the dangers, after another diving group is attacked.

"The infinite hotel [dive into mark]"

"The infinite hotel [dive into mark]" 12/06/2003 03:21 PM

Dive recovers Cromwell's sailor

Dive recovers Cromwell's sailor 09/13/2004 12:21 PM
A sailor from a sunken ship belonging to Oliver Cromwell's navy had the upper body of a trapeze artist but bowed legs, his recovered skeleton shows.

I dream of Gmail [dive into mark]

I dream of Gmail [dive into mark] 04/14/2004 06:22 AM
strongly-worded points .. it

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"Pink Numbers [dive into mark]"

"Pink Numbers [dive into mark]" 06/02/2004 01:07 AM

The myth of RSS compatibility [dive into
mark]

The myth of RSS compatibility [dive into
mark] 02/15/2004 08:55 PM
Mark Pilgrim on the incompatibilities between the 7 9 different versions of RSS .. carefully explains incompatibilities .. ran down a history .. rss is broken .. indulges .. says

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Dive provides digital video 'shoebox'

Dive provides digital video 'shoebox' 07/23/2004 09:45 AM
Dive, a new Mac OS X application from Aquafadas, provides an on-screen digital video "shoebox" for storing clips and still images...

French Robot to Dive Red Sea for Crash
Black Box

French Robot to Dive Red Sea for Crash
Black Box 01/04/2004 06:57 PM
Reuters via Wired News Jan 4 2004 6:42PM ET

Carb-counting bagels [dive into mark]

Carb-counting bagels [dive into mark] 12/24/2003 05:27 AM
Atkins, carb-counting bagels, white chocolate and light beer .. source .. bagel .. Mark

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How to make a linkbl0g in Atom [dive
into mark]

How to make a linkbl0g in Atom [dive
into mark] 05/30/2004 05:00 AM
Mark

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Romans dive into muddy Tiber (Reuters)

Romans dive into muddy Tiber (Reuters) 01/01/2004 07:57 AM
Reuters - Four Romans have braved the chill to dive 52 feet off a bridge into the muddy River Tiber to mark a New Year tradition.

Attack Buzzard Dies Dive-Bombing Van
(AP)

Attack Buzzard Dies Dive-Bombing Van
(AP) 06/17/2004 10:10 AM
AP - A buzzard which attacked more than 20 cyclists on a country road has died after dive-bombing a van, officials said Thursday.

Tenn. Man's 5-Day Dive Sets World Record
(AP)

Tenn. Man's 5-Day Dive Sets World Record
(AP) 09/04/2004 08:39 PM
AP - A Tennessee man beat his own record for staying underwater with scuba gear after five days in a lake — complete with recliner, a checkerboard, music and good friends to keep him company.

Dive-bombing buzzard flies last mission
(Reuters)

Dive-bombing buzzard flies last mission
(Reuters) 06/17/2004 03:43 AM
Reuters - A bad-tempered buzzard which dive-bombed cyclists on a Devon country road has finally met its match after it swooped on a van.

States dive into stem cell debates
(USATODAY.com)

States dive into stem cell debates
(USATODAY.com) 04/21/2004 08:48 AM
USATODAY.com - Cloned babies. Embryo farms. Miracle cures. Shoot the TV if you want to avoid hearing the buzzwords of stem cell politics this year.

Boeing profits dive but easily beat
views

Boeing profits dive but easily beat
views 02/05/2005 10:06 PM
Seattletimes.nwsource.com - Wed Feb 2, 05:50 pm GMT

Amazon book sales rise 9% faster through
search inside the book feature

Amazon book sales rise 9% faster through
search inside the book feature 10/31/2003 06:21 PM
InternetRetailer.com Oct 31 2003 4:44PM ET

Book Review: Windows Admin Scripting
Little Black Book, Second Edition

Book Review: Windows Admin Scripting
Little Black Book, Second Edition 06/12/2004 12:32 PM

Book Release: Mad Cow and Cattle
Mutilations Meet the War on Terror in
Brad Steel's New Book Mute

Book Release: Mad Cow and Cattle
Mutilations Meet the War on Terror in
Brad Steel's New Book Mute 03/19/2005 02:43 AM
In MUTE, author Brad Steel has created a gripping and eerily believable scenario in which the leaders of Western nations band together to do the unthinkable—convinced it is necessary, however radical. [PRWEB Mar 17, 2005]

Book Publishers Selling Direct - Pissing
Off Book Retailers

Book Publishers Selling Direct - Pissing
Off Book Retailers 02/13/2004 05:52 AM
One of the struggles that companies have as distribution and sales mechanisms change is handling legacy channel conflict issues. Dell became huge by selling direct to customers, but when rival Compaq started to move in that direction, their retail partners freaked out - and Compaq had to scale back their plans. It appears that book publishers are now going through the same process. They've realized that if someone is looking for info about certain books on their site, it makes sense to also offer them a chance to buy it. However, it's pissing off retailers, who don't want to hear that their suppliers are competing with them. Retailers say a reasonable compromise would be having the publishers point to the retailers, which was my first response as well. However, then it becomes a political situation of who do you link to and why? There's also the fact that this makes for a less enjoyable consumer experience. I know that, more than once, I've been annoyed at online sites where I go for info on buying a product, but when I try to buy am given a big list of retailers instead of a way to buy right away.

Chinese dive into bomb shelters to
escape the heat (Reuters)

Chinese dive into bomb shelters to
escape the heat (Reuters) 06/22/2005 02:18 AM
Reuters - China is opening up old bomb shelters in central Chongqing so people can cool off from the summer heat, Xinhua news agency said Tuesday.

Book review - Book lowers fear of
threats

Book review - Book lowers fear of
threats 12/15/2003 08:15 AM
vnunet.com Dec 15 2003 7:11AM ET
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