Daily Python URL roundup

I just went and caught up on the last bunch of days' worth of the Daily Python URL. Here are some of the good links:

• Andrew Channels Dexter Pinion: Validating Relax NG with libxml2 and Python
• David Brown on dealing with the GIL when integrating Python with Frontier.
• Peter Yared's Musings: The Next Language
• Kid 0.2 and a note on Template Design: "One of the reasons I'm so attracted to Python is that there's very little "saving people from themselves." Whether it be the liberal take on private attributes in classes, the ability to modify an objects member __dict__, the disregard for interface as contract, or a myriad of other aspects of the language, Python's utter disrespect for all things sacred and holy in protecting machines from the idiot programmers that abuse them really flipped a switch for me."
• ASPN : Python Cookbook : Spreadsheet "Use eval() to drive spreadsheet style logic. The sleeper feature of Py2.4 is the ability to use any object with a mapping interface as the locals argument to eval()."
• PyTable RDBMS Wrapper
• dirtSimple.org: Python Is Not Java. Excellent. Use "Guido's time machine"! Heh. Also, "if you miss your Java IDE, consider the possibility that it's because your Python program is much more complex than it needs to be." (cf. The IDE Divide). Also, I hadn't heard of the "property" feature in Python 2.4 until now. Ryan has an example at Simon's blog.

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Kerry spokesman Mike McCurry on why they lost the election

PoliPundit.com » Quote of the Day: Kerry spokesman Mike McCurry on why they lost the election: "We believed that we were the majority party...That strategy was fundamentally flawed".

And Jim Jordan, Kerry's former campaign manager: "We are too coastal. We are too urban. We are too secular. And, most of all, we are too dovish. The public simply doesn’t trust us to keep them safe."

(emphasis mine). That's what I've been saying.

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