Dr. Dobb's Python-URL! - weekly Python news and links (Feb 26)
Oleg Broytmann
phd at phd.russ.ru
Mon Feb 26 16:25:12 EST 2001
Jeremy Hylton updates PEP 227 (static scoping)
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/python-list/message/124981
and thus starts a hot discussion
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/python-list/messagesearch?query=Update%20to%20PEP%20227%20%28static%20scoping%29
Guido van Rossum announces nested scopes in 2.1 and 2.2 optional
http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-list/2001-February/030681.html
David Mertz announces an oops on gnosis.cx/publish/
and moves to new hosting
http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-list/2001-February/030550.html
David Mertz: Charming Python: Getting version 2.0
http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/library/l-py20.html?dwzone=linux
David Mertz: Functional Programming in Python
http://gnosis.cx/publish/programming/charming_python_13.txt
Philipp wrapps www.graphviz.org's 'dot' language in Python
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/python-list/message/124396
python powered mp3 management
http://mpy3.thelocust.org/
Thomas Heller shows how to enter a (possibly dotted) python
module name in the Emacs' minibuffer
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/python-list/message/124525
gnome-python 1.4.0: Updated to work with the latest GtkHTML
http://www.daa.com.au/~james/gnome/
Jerome Alet annonces new version of JAXML XML generator
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/python-list/message/124939
Warren Postma announces event module 1.0 for better threading
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/python-list/message/124830
Barry Warsaw updates PEP 232, Function Attributes
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/python-list/message/124789
Amos Latteier announces Zope Directions Roadmap
http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-announce-list/2001-February/000673.html
Stephen Figgins: Zope's New Roadmap
http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/python/2001/02/22/pythonnews.html
Jean-Luc Fontaine creates tclpython that embeds python into tcl
http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-list/2001-February/030652.html
Lars Marius Garshol wraps James Clark's SP SGML parser
http://www.garshol.priv.no/download/software/pysp/
Norbert Klamann creates a working setup.py for DCOracle 1.3.2
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/python-list/message/124940
Marc-Andre Lemburg launches eGenix and announces that Extensions for Python 2.0
http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-announce-list/2001-February/000679.html
Computer scientists at Endeavors Technology have successfully
developed a highly optimized, open source port of Python to the
Palm OS(R) platform to stimulate interest in creating Python-based
applications for Palm(TM) handheld computers and other devices that
use the Palm operating system.
http://sf-web1.businesswire.com/cgi-bin/f_headline.cgi?day0/210540113&ticker=
http://www.endeavors.com/pippy/
Chris Gonnerman posts an example code explaining how to extend
Python in C/C++
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/python-list/message/125374
Uche Ogbuji announces "The Python Web services developer" column
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/python-list/message/125405
Mark Hammond explains how to ensures the thread-lock is released
when the function is called (SWIG)
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/python-list/message/125473
Sean Reifschneider comtinues to think about CPAN functionality
for python
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/python-list/message/125510
Zope
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Brian Lloyd announces SECURITY alert and hotfix release
http://lists.zope.org/pipermail/zope/2001-February/084053.html
Michel Pelletier announces Zope Book is now in public CVS
http://lists.zope.org/pipermail/zope/2001-February/084061.html
Hot threads of the week
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locking files
http://groups.google.com/groups?lr=&safe=off&ic=1&th=e046814cf6e52ae3&seekd=917102346
Alternative iterator syntax
http://groups.google.com/groups?lr=&safe=off&ic=1&th=f90597b5cb186d16&seekd=917023515
Comparison with Ruby
http://groups.google.com/groups?lr=&safe=off&ic=1&th=105b832cf34cd872&seekd=916928222
Rounding Question
http://groups.google.com/groups?lr=&safe=off&ic=1&th=d054718b0b4ad260&seekd=916921447
import statement is case sensitive
http://groups.google.com/groups?lr=&safe=off&ic=1&th=24e0f1d3ddcb2ac5&seekd=916916940
An alternative approach to bound methods
http://groups.google.com/groups?lr=&safe=off&ic=1&th=307b2dd2b5d6bc3f&seekd=916902767
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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 continues Andrew Kuchling's marvelous tradition
of summarizing action on the python-dev mailing list twice a
month.
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/
Python Consortium emerges as an independent nexus of activity
http://www.python.org/consortium
Cetus does much of the same
http://www.cetus-links.de/oo_python.html
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://groups.google.com/groups?oi=djq&as_ugroup=comp.lang.python&num=100
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