Python URL March 17

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  QOTW:

  "Generally, you should always go for whatever is clearest/most easily read (not just in Python, but in all languages)."—Timothy Delaney

   

  "You will find as your programming experience increases that the different languages you learn are appropriate for different purposes, and have different advantages and disadvantages. Python excels at expressing algorithms in an unambiguous and easily-readable way."—Steve Holden

   

• Is Python a viable extension language for Java? Ravi Teja expertly outlines the possibilities:
  http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/msg/54ad155bc138c8d2
• "In order to facilitate small groups working on specific Python-in-Education projects, we have launched an edupython list on google groups." This is a hands-on complement to the more "philosophical" edu-sig.
  http://groups.google.com/group/edupython
  edupython@googlegroups.com

   

• One interesting use of Python--at least to software workers--is to manage texts written in *other* languages. Fredrik Lundh and Roman Yakovenko present good approaches for the C++ case:
  http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/msg/913eb2563b815745
  http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/msg/2b74c8355fc5c25a
• Pascal and Python? Sure:
  http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/browse_thread/thread/9806ed054493d6a6/
• Uche Ogbuji details XPath, *XSLT, XQuery, ... capabilities:
  http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/browse_thread/thread/51b0fcdc7df8a34e/