Dr. Dobb's Python-URL! - weekly Python news and links (Jun 26)

Emile van Sebille emile at fcfw.fenx.com
Tue Jun 26 08:22:47 EDT 2001


    Guido announces the release of Python 2.0.1, a maintenance release
    with a revised license that is GPL compatible.
        http://groups.google.com/groups?ic=1&q=msgid:mailman.993230040.28120.python-list@python.org

    Andrew MacIntyre releases an OS/2 port of python 2.1.
        http://groups.google.com/groups?ic=1&q=msgid:mailman.992804846.18097.python-list@python.org

    Michael Stroeder releases web2ldap, a web-based generic LDAP client
    written in Python.
        http://groups.google.com/groups?ic=1&q=msgid:3B3517E0.9571A361@stroeder.com

    David Beazley sparks <g> discussion on function attributes when he
    announces PLY-1.0, a 100% Python implementation of the common
    parsing tools lex and yacc.
        http://groups.google.com/groups?ic=1&q=msgid:mailman.992921580.28727.clpa-moderators@python.org

    Markus Gritsch introduces VideoCapture, a Python extension for
    Win32 which makes it possible to access the video device.
        http://groups.google.com/groups?ic=1&q=msgid:mailman.992921580.28726.clpa-moderators@python.org

    Dave Cole announces Sybase module 0.26, which provides a Python
    Database API version 2.0 interface to the Sybase relational database
    system.
        http://groups.google.com/groups?ic=1&q=msgid:m33d8xkuvz.fsf@vole.object-craft.com.au

    Robin Becker release version 1.08 of the ReportLab toolkit, which
    now includes initial support for Mac OS 9.
        http://groups.google.com/groups?ic=1&q=msgid:oX4bSqA5yzL7Ew5m@jessikat.demon.co.uk

    Fred Drake issues updates of the 2.2 development version...
        http://groups.google.com/groups?ic=1&q=msgid:mailman.993236248.3156.python-list@python.org
    ...and the 2.1.1 maintenance version documentation.
        http://groups.google.com/groups?ic=1&q=msgid:mailman.993234922.2134.python-list@python.org

    Michel Pelletier has written the first in a series of articles
    on the Zope Object Database (ZODB).
        http://groups.google.com/groups?ic=1&q=msgid:mailman.992895416.23209.python-list@python.org

    David Goodger starts reStructuredText, a candidate markup syntax
    for the Python Docstring Processing System as per PEPs 256, 257 &
    258.
        http://groups.google.com/groups?ic=1&q=msgid:B7558512.13268%25dgoodger@bigfoot.com

    Kevin Altis starts a mailing list to discuss creation of PythonCard.
        http://groups.google.com/groups?ic=1&q=msgid:qdVX6.1963$zE1.721339@news.uswest.net

    Paul Prescod shows us where to find pyperl, a module that allows
    Perl code to be run from Python...
        http://www.cpan.org/modules/by-module/LWP/GAAS/pyperl-1.0.readme
    ... and Alex Martelli points us to Minotaur, which allows mixing
    Python, Perl and TCL.
        http://www.equi4.com/minotaur/minotaur.html

    Steve Majewski found that Microsoft's EULA for the Mobile Internet
    Toolkit Beta 2 restricts developers from distributing the software
    in conjunction with Potentially Viral Software.
        http://groups.google.com/groups?ic=1&q=msgid:mailman.993174742.10326.python-list@python.org
    It appeared the page referred to was quickly removed from Microsoft's
    site; then Alastair Burt re-found it.
        http://msdn.microsoft.com/downloads/eula_mit.htm

    The Vienna Python Interest Group (PIGgie) has just been formed this
    month.
        http://groups.google.com/groups?ic=1&th=1c92ecc5f025a11f,1

    IBM devloperWorks has just published the second part of Uche
    Ogbuji's PyXPCOM article. Great quote: "Python is famous for making rapid
    development in Java actually possible, and PyXPCOM brings the same
    benefit to XPCOM."
        http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/components/library/co-pyxp2.html

    developerWorks is really digging Python these days. They've also
    published David Mertz's article on Python and XML:
        http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/xml/library/l-pxml.html?open&l=913,t=grx,p=xpyth

    Python's growth into the educational market continues. Eric Raymond
    spotted this endorsement from a university in the land down, under
    and a little to the left:
        http://it.mycareer.com.au/news/2001/06/05/FFX9ZT7UENC.html

    If your local college doesn't provide it then maybe you can get to
    Learning Tree's classes in Chicago during the next few hours
    (June 26):
        http://www.learningtree.com/us/ilt/courses/430.htm

    You may have heard that there is now an operating system for Lego
    (Lego Mindstorms LegOS). And there is even a Python module to talk
    to it. These aren't the inanimate blocks of our childhood!
        http://www.hare.demon.co.uk/lego/pylnp.html

    A new Python user proclaims that his relationship with Python has moved
    to a new level. There's a lot of love in this newsgroup <sniff>.
        http://groups.google.com/groups?ic=1&th=8a31b51350a5fcc9,1

    Pgnotify is still wet behind the ears (ver 0.1) but we're proud to
    announce it: "a PostgreSQL client-side asynchronous notification
    handler for Python." 
        http://www.post1.com/home/ngps/pgnotify/

    Python receives a lot of good press in an article on Slashdot asking 
    about the next step beyond Visual Basic.  While the questioner is
    eviscerated (Slashdot style), reviews of Python are positive:
        http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=01%2F06%2F08%2F2140257


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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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