Dr. Dobb's Python-URL! - weekly Python news and links (Jul 30)
Cameron Laird
claird at NeoSoft.com
Mon Jul 30 10:47:17 EDT 2001
Quotes of the week:
Paul Prescod: Perl users seem remarkably accepting of
change considering the installed base of the language.
Paul Prescod: Moore's law is slowly making type
declarations irrelevant.
Stephen: The web just doesn't lend itself to building
look-ahead auto-complete fields for names, emails etc.
Uwe Zessin releases Python 2.1.1 for OpenVMS
http://www.decus.de/~zessin/python2/
Harry George offers example use of setup.py
http://groups.google.com/groups?th=18626bc240f7e9e3
June Kim and Dave Brueck present the argument in favor
of dynamic typing
http://groups.google.com/groups?th=2d17178851b0f98e
Thomas Weholt's relatively innocent question about distributed
computing technologies leads to deep (if largely Python-free)
and even important analyses by Tim Daneliuk, Graham Dumpleton,
Galen Swint, and others. Also in the same thread, Ng Pheng
Siong provides nice performance boosts for SOAP.
http://groups.google.com/groups?th=559ffaccf0ac9907
You can submit a paper for the tenth Python Conference
http://www.python10.org/p10-callpapers.html
Duncan Grisby provides a fine quick-start tutorial to CORBA
use, as well as directions to a public fortune-cookie service
http://groups.google.com/groups?th=2244bf713d379f2e
Guido launches a lively and important newsgroup thread on the
reality of type-class unification (and discloses his own
temporal intuition is accurate only to a decimal order-and-a-half
of magnitude)
http://groups.google.com/groups?th=a8dc15aab8832a6b
Front Range Pythoneers energetically dispute the validation
theology involved in PyUnit (look for "Doctest" as a subject)
http://community.tummy.com/pipermail/frpythoneers/2001-July/thread.html
David Mertz teaches that Pippy is a port of Python to PalmOS
http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/linux/library/l-pippy?open&l=252,t=grl,p=Pyth4PalmOS
Now it's called, "Zope Corporation"
http://www.zope.com/News/PressReleases/DC2ZC
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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 once every
other week.
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/
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 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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