Dr. Dobb's Python-URL! - weekly Python news and links (Dec 17)
Paul Boddie
paul at boddie.net
Mon Dec 17 08:57:40 EST 2001
QOTW: "I'm ready to bet a good lunch at Bologna's best restaurant,
wine included, that dependencies will become much more common, i.e.,
that reuse will indeed have been encouraged." Alex Martelli [on
CPAN, Python and dependencies]
"Release candidate 1" brings the final release of Python 2.2 one
step closer.
http://groups.google.com/groups?th=ca492fd6f83f8427
It may have seemed stupid to ask how a Python program can be
distributed stand-alone, but how often does jythonc get
mentioned in response?
http://groups.google.com/groups?th=40655c77b2331e34
Some time ago, Paul Tchistopolskii regarded Zope as being the
Windows 3.0 of the Web. That may seem harsh, but there haven't
been many protests - perhaps he has a point...
http://www.pault.com/pault/zope/zope.html
Comparing like with like, now, and a more straightforward
comparison has to be between the Apache components mod_python and
mod_snake. If you want to do CGI-like things, but faster, a few
suggestions are offered.
http://groups.google.com/groups?th=feacc6d11cc98af1
Alexandre Fayolle inadvertently rises to the challenge of last
week's "Python-URL!" with a summary of interesting XML modules.
http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=slrna1ci7t.9tl.alf%40sagittarius.logilab.fr
And on the subject of "Python as XML", whatever happened to Xython?
http://sourceforge.net/projects/xython/
Mygale seems to make the "Python-URL!" editor's job redundant...
or easier?
http://www.awaretek.com/nowak/mygale.html
Talking of vaults, whatever happened to the Python CPAN?
http://groups.google.com/groups?th=2ab22a9d10d675a3
Well, Suchandra Thapa exposes ciphon to beta testing.
http://groups.google.com/groups?th=add05b3ce874d380
And remember the Software Carpentry project? Well, here's the
first release of SCons - the build/make tool of that project.
http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=mailman.1008305779.12195.python-list%40python.org
Meanwhile, here's an SMTP server written in Python. Just in
case you ever needed one.
http://www.hare.demon.co.uk/pysmtp.html
Wanted: speakers for a Python event in the United Kingdom.
http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=mailman.1008168137.12533.python-list%40python.or
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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 traditional
center of Pythonia
http://www.python.org
Notice especially the master FAQ
http://www.python.org/doc/FAQ.html
PythonWare complements the digest you're reading with the
daily python url
http://www.pythonware.com/daily
comp.lang.python.announce announces new Python software. Be
sure to scan this newly-revitalized newsgroup at least weekly.
http://groups.google.com/groups?oi=djq&as_ugroup=comp.lang.python.announce
Michael Hudson continued Andrew Kuchling's marvelous tradition
of summarizing action on the python-dev mailing list once every
other week, into July 2001. Any volunteers to re-start this
valuable series?
http://starship.python.net/crew/mwh/summaries/
http://www.amk.ca/python/dev
The Vaults of Parnassus ambitiously collect Python resources
http://www.vex.net/~x/parnassus/
Much of Python's real work takes place on Special-Interest Group
mailing lists
http://www.python.org/sigs/
The Python Software Foundation has replaced the Python Consortium
as an independent nexus of activity
http://www.python.org/psf/
Cetus does much of the same
http://www.cetus-links.de/oo_python.html
Python FAQTS
http://python.faqts.com/
The old Python "To-Do List" now lives principally in a
SourceForge reincarnation.
http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?atid=355470&group_id=5470&func=browse
http://python.sourceforge.net/peps/pep-0042.html
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
Tenth International Python Conference
http://www.python10.org
Archive probing tricks of the trade:
http://groups.google.com/groups?oi=djq&as_ugroup=comp.lang.python&num=100
http://groups.google.com/groups?meta=site%3Dgroups%26group%3Dcomp.lang.python.*
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