Dr. Dobb's Python-URL! - weekly Python news and links (Sep 10)
Quinn Dunkan
quinn at yak.ugcs.caltech.edu
Mon Sep 10 10:39:38 EDT 2001
'Looks like Google changed their "groups" arguments, and start= doesn't work
anymore, so all URLs point to the beginning of the thread or to a specific
article. Oh well. Depending on whatever order google happened to sort the
articles in seemed fragile anyway. Hope this isn't too confusing for people
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Language use:
kmalloc wants to extend an application with python. Alex describes
how to set up the python namespace from C and how to write python
classes in C (the traditional party line is "Don't. Write python
classes wrapping C functions, which are much easier to write."):
http://groups.google.com/groups?th=1d68eb930a358733
Fred wants to know how to handle deep inheritance, and Joel
discusses import dependency management:
http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=3B9456D0.635BDC3E%40student.gu.edu.au
Bob wants a graphics library to draw and manipulate shapes. There
are a number of candidates:
http://groups.google.com/groups?th=8d082cc940389469&rnum=1
Can you use python for sysadmin-ly tasks? Of course, and many
people do. Let's get away from 300 line incomprehensible shell
scripts:
http://groups.google.com/groups?th=2bb3ce650793add1&rnum=1
http://groups.google.com/groups?th=1c049c520814b002&rnum=1
Announcements:
"Anygui is a generic GUI package which allows you to write
programs that will work with several backends, such as Tkinter,
wxPython, and Java Swing.":
http://groups.google.com/groups?th=7e177109ff8caada&rnum=2
CGIgen is... umm... well, it looks like a ZPublisher-like
"publish your python objects on the web" sort of thing, except
different. It also has an interesting looking exception
handling/mapping mechanism. This is an early alpha, so check
out the source if you're interested:
http://groups.google.com/groups?th=56c920f30591f290&rnum=1
PY21 is another python distribution for windows. It includes
Tkinter, PIL, PST, and more:
http://groups.google.com/groups?th=9445d2b02cf4eb59&rnum=1
PyF*ck, a python compiler for BrainF*ck (compiles to python).
BrainF*ck is a fine language, though possibly not as readable
as python:
http://groups.google.com/groups?th=d4f08205eaba35a7&rnum=1
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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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