Dr. Dobb's Python-URL! - weekly Python news and links (Dec 28)
Gordon McMillan
gmcm at hypernet.com
Tue Dec 28 11:41:05 EST 1999
The holiday week brought Pythondom three nice new shiny packages:
Markus F.X.J. Oberhumer announces that Version 3.10 of
PySol is here (128 solitaire card games in one!):
http://wildsau.idv.uni-linz.ac.at/mfx/pysol.html
Kevin Dahlhausen announces pyhints - a script that scans
Python source and builds a hint script for VIM (prompts
you with function signatures):
http://www.deja.com/getdoc.xp?AN=563701938
Paul Sheer announces KOALA 0.9.0, a database / GUI forms
package for postgres and Gnome (uses Python 1.5.1):
http://www.deja.com/getdoc.xp?AN=565059802
Bernard Herzog uncovers the reason why maintaining two
Python installations on Linux is difficult:
http://www.deja.com/getdoc.xp?AN=563559697
Ng Pheng Siong provides a nice overview what must be done
to use urllib with differnt sorts of firewalls:
http://www.deja.com/getdoc.xp?AN=563817592
In the Windows / COM world, we got two nice overviews:
Eugene Goodrich provides hints for those doing ASP coding:
http://www.deja.com/getdoc.xp?AN=564839534
John Nielsen (via Mark Hammond) offers help to those stuck
with administering Exchange on NT (or using Python/COM with
ADSI):
http://www.deja.com/getdoc.xp?AN=563607231
Andrew M. Kuchling updates his "Python warts" page to reflect
the most recent rounds of discussion on Python's shortcomings:
http://starship.python.net/crew/amk/python/warts.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 center of Pythonia
http://www.python.org
Much of Python's real work takes place on Special-Interest Group
mailing lists http://www.python.org/sigs/
Python Consortium emerges as an independent nexus of activity
http://www.python.org/consortium
Python To-Do List anticipates some of Python's future direction
http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/todo.py
The Vaults of Parnassus ambitiously collects Python resources
http://www.vex.net/~x/parnassus/
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 trick of the trade:
http://www.dejanews.com/dnquery.xp?QRY=&DBS=2&ST=PS&defaultOp=AND&LNG=ALL&format=threaded&showsort=date&maxhits=100&groups=comp.lang.python
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