Python Magazine: First issue free!
The premier issue of Python Magazine is available for download right now, completely free.
I haven’t mentioned it previously on this blog, but I’m the Technical Editor for the magazine. That means I review and test the submitted code, and write a monthly column. The column runs under the title “And Now for Something Completely Different” and will focus on technical topics (this month I talk about the GIL and 2 packages for managing processes).
Other regular columns include Brian Jones (Editor in Chief), Mark Mruss (“Welcome to Python”, targeted at newer users or introductory topics), and Steve Holden (“Random Hits”, the end-note editorial).
In addition to the regular columns, there are 4 feature articles this month:
- John Berninger covers Extending Python using C, without using a binding generator. He’s Old School.
- Kevin Ryan introduces form processing in WSGI with some clever data-driven techniques using lambda.
- Sayamindu Dasgupta writes a PyGTK widget using Cairo primitives to draw the widget view.
- And I discuss a fun hack I came up with to pull iCalendar data out of an IMAP server.
I’m really excited about the how this issue has turned out (Arbi Arzoumani did a great job with the design and layout), and hope you like it, too. Head over to http://pythonmagazine.com/c/issue/2007/10 and download the PDF version. If you do like it, subscribe! If you think you could do better, submit an idea for an article and write for us!
Besides soliciting articles from you, I’ll always be on the look-out for good ideas to cover in my own column. If there is something you want me to cover, email me directly (doug dot hellmann at pythonmagazine dot com) or tag a link to a site or blog post with pymagdifferent on del.icio.us.