Dr. Dobb's Python-URL! - weekly Python news and links (Jun 18)
Emile van Sebille
emile at fcfw.fenx.com
Mon Jun 18 10:25:41 EDT 2001
Andrew Kuchling's been busy this week, announcing version 0.3
of the Quixote Web development toolkit...
http://groups.google.com/groups?ic=1&q=msgid:mailman.992279041.25730.clpa-moderators@python.org
... a fresh package of ZODB and ZEO available...
http://groups.google.com/groups?ic=1&q=msgid:mailman.992380331.21323.clpa-moderators@python.org
... and launches a quest for warts...
http://groups.google.com/groups?ic=1&q=msgid:mailman.992543370.22014.python-list@python.org
... the cure for which is generally accepted to be hypnosis. For
when time travel simply won't do.
http://www.uniontrib.com/news/diversions/strange/20000329-1210strange9.html
Cyril Slobin releases a dos version of python.
http://groups.google.com/groups?ic=1&q=msgid:dc44b395.0106121341.26de828a@posting.google.com
Jon Saenz announces PyClimate 1.1, for the analysis of atmospheric
and oceanic data sets.
http://groups.google.com/groups?ic=1&q=msgid:mailman.992510340.9024.clpa-moderators@python.org
David Hart revives the calls for a python CPAN, but with a twist.
http://groups.google.com/groups?ic=1&q=msgid:oFRV6.2073$PA4.763051146@newssvr17.news.prodigy.com
The nagging license concerns introduced with 1.6b1, in particular
with regard to GPL compatibility, have been worked out for new and
bug-fix releases. See Guido's post for more.
http://groups.google.com/groups?ic=1&q=msgid:mailman.992706505.26148.
python-list at python.org
Tim Peters points out a new tutorial reference on floating point.
http://python.sourceforge.net/devel-docs/tut/node14.html
PEPs:
Tim Peters releases PEP 255, adding a new keyword that enables Simple
Generators...
http://python.sf.net/peps/pep-0255.txt
... even while pointing out that keywords rarely actually make it
into the language.
http://groups.google.com/groups?ic=1&q=msgid:mailman.992695645.13636.python-list@python.org
David Goodgear introduces PEPs 256,257 & 258, a trio of docstring
related standards to support DPS (Docstring Processing System)
Framework
http://python.sf.net/peps/pep-0256.txt
Docstring Conventions
http://python.sf.net/peps/pep-0257.txt
DPS Generic Implementation Details
http://python.sf.net/peps/pep-0258.txt
Guido confirms we're paying attention by introducing PEP 259 ...
http://groups.google.com/groups?ic=1&q=msgid:mailman.992290220.14360.python-list@python.org
... and withdrawing it a few days later.
http://groups.google.com/groups?ic=1&q=msgid:mailman.992449110.8527.python-list@python.org
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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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