Dr. Dobb's Python-URL! - weekly Python news and links (May 22)
Andrew M. Kuchling
akuchlin at mems-exchange.org
Mon May 22 18:24:30 EDT 2000
Words to live by: "the registry sucks, but ... a global
environment sucks even more!"
http://x44.deja.com/getdoc.xp?AN=623411718
http://x44.deja.com/getdoc.xp?AN=623726469
Jeff Kunce installs Python for network sharing
http://starship.python.net/crew/jjkunce/netinstall/python_network_setup.html
GvR announces that the Python CVS tree has been moved to SourceForge.
This makes it possible to give external developers checkin privileges.
http://www.python.org/pipermail/python-list/2000-May/058080.html
A page on using Python from Delphi:
http://www.multimania.com/marat/delphi/python.htm
Peter Milliken announces Python support for ELSE, which adds
language-specific templates to Emacs:
http://members.xoom.com/pmilliken
Francois Pinard postes interesting code snippets.
He calculates the fraction closest to a decimal number:
http://www.python.org/pipermail/python-list/2000-May/057402.html
and converts nsgmls output to an in-memory tree:
http://www.python.org/pipermail/python-list/2000-May/057442.html
Speculation about Python 3000, and the mooted possibility of
introducing case-insensitivity, lead to a lengthy discussion. (Since
this is comp.lang.python, it's a discussion and not a flamewar.) You
can start following the thread from the following posting:
http://www.python.org/pipermail/python-list/2000-May/057876.html
A few noteworthy posts in the thread:
GvR, on the rationale for the potential change:
http://www.python.org/pipermail/python-list/2000-May/057990.html
Fredrik Lundh, on the Alice work that gave rise to the idea:
http://www.python.org/pipermail/python-list/2000-May/058031.html
Francois Pinard explains his disagreement:
http://www.python.org/pipermail/python-list/2000-May/058044.html
"3 years is a long time", by A.M. Kuchling:
http://www.python.org/pipermail/python-list/2000-May/058053.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
eff-bot's complements this digest with his daily python url
http://hem.passagen.se/eff/url.htm
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
The Vaults of Parnassus ambitiously collects Python resources
http://www.vex.net/~x/parnassus/
Python FAQTS
http://python.faqts.com/
Python To-Do List anticipates some of Python's future direction
http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/todo.py
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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