Dr. Dobb's Python-URL! - weekly Python news and links (Oct 9)
Quinn Dunkan
quinn at yak.ugcs.caltech.edu
Tue Oct 9 17:42:59 EDT 2001
Here's a cool oracular python program. Impress your friends!
http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&threadm=3bbaf6c9%240%24244%24edfadb0f%40dspool01.news.tele.dk
Everyone knows about Zope, but there are a lot of other python HTML-writing
solutions. Some people have collected links with quick overviews:
http://www.paul.boddie.net/Python/web_modules.html
http://webware.sf.net/Papers/Templates/
True to c.l.py tradition, a budding GPL war veers randomly off into an
argument about the usage of apostrophe's:
http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&oe=ISO-8859-1&threadm=9pn44q%24m1r%241%40tyfon.itea.ntnu.no
(Would Strunk & White have liked Python? It's simple, clear, regular...)
Gerhard maintains the python category at dmoz.org. Put it in your bookmarks
next to www.vex.net/parnassus!
http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&threadm=mailman.1002355626.16248.python-list%40python.org
dmoz.org entry:
http://dmoz.org/Computers/Programming/Languages/Python/Modules/
Zope vs. PHP for SQL-oriented sites? Cameron gives an even-handed (well, it
*sounds* even-handed) answer. In brief, Zope is cool but the conceptual
difficulty in getting the Zope Zen (this has been a problem ever since the
beginning) can make it slow going for newbies until they get everything
together. Followups note that efforts are underway to fix this with
more and better documentation, and that the somewhat grotty DTML template
language is being superseded by Page Templates, which are desgined to
work well with HTML editors and separate the "page design" from the "add
dynamic doohickeys" work:
http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&threadm=B72B302E37066816.6331F170A093A2AF.D02BC798CFF1B3F5%40lp.airnews.net
2.2 will be coming out RSN, and those seeking details on all the spiffy
(or feeping, depending on your point of view) new features are probably
best served by
http://www.python.org/2.2/descrintro.html
... but for those who want to see how they will fit into the main
documentation (or who want to proofread it... you never know), the
development docs have been updated:
http://python.sourceforge.net/devel-docs/
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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 continued Andrew Kuchling's marvelous tradition
of summarizing action on the python-dev mailing list once every
other week, into July 2001. Any volunteers to re-start this
valuable series?
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/
The old Python "To-Do List" now lives principally in a
SourceForge reincarnation.
http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?atid=355470&group_id=5470&func=browse
http://python.sourceforge.net/peps/pep-0042.html
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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