Dr. Dobb's Python-URL! - weekly Python news and links (May 7)
Cameron Laird
claird at neosoft.com
Mon May 7 11:50:04 EDT 2001
Frederic Giacometti announces JPE as a Java-Python hybrid with
advantages in certain situations over Jython
http://sourceforge.net/projects/jpe
http://groups.google.com/groups?ic=1&th=ec94c7f54b7ebc14
Ka-Ping Yee and Guido publish the long-awaited iterator PEP
http://python.sourceforge.net/peps/pep-0234.html
COM exposes fixed-point arithmetic as currency values. Python's
core has no good correspondence--yet. While waiting for change,
it's still possible to persuade Python to make the right calculations
http://groups.google.com/groups?ic=1&th=989644d1a6bc8be5
Fredrik Lundh offers a convenient definition for rotating
graphical text with PIL
http://mail.python.org/pipermail/image-sig/2001-May/001452.html
Paul Prescod, Carlos Ribeiro, Michael Hudson, and timbot explain
the sense of xrange
http://groups.google.com/groups?ic=1&th=282bcfd9c7c666bc
2.1 is available for MacOS
http://www.cwi.nl/~jack/macpython.html
Stephen Figgins mentions Redfoot and 4RDF as Python-based RDF
utilities
http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/python/2001/05/02/pythonnews.html
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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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