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

Tue Feb 26 12:00:32 EST 2002

QOTW:  "Pythonistas tend to delight in the 'incidental generality' engendered
by the language's robust polymorphism."  -Steve Holden

"Is there an idiots guide to code objects, frame objects and settrace
anywhere?" -Tim Rowe
"Anybody using those would look like a very smart idiot ..." -Martin von Loewis

    Is there a good way to script C++ from Python?  The community offers a
    wide variety of answers.
        http://groups.google.com/groups?th=f8a882ef09879fbd
        http://www.scipy.org/site_content/weave
        http://www.boost.org/libs/python/doc/example1.html
        http://www.acl.lanl.gov/siloon/
        http://root.cern.ch/root/Cint.html

    The Python UK Conference coincides with the ACCU Spring Conference,
    April 4 & 5 2002.  Get two conferences for the price of one!
        http://www.accuconference.co.uk
[dup?]

    mxCGIPython is a complete Python interpreter in one file.  It's easy
    to install and starts up fast.
        http://www.egenix.com/files/python/mxCGIPython.html

    Cameron Laird shows how to use SOAP.py to check air fares.
        http://groups.google.com/groups?th=2dd8799dafd0304c

    Justin Sheehy shows how to write a Linux daemon in Python.
        http://groups.google.com/groups?th=556689d395822992

    The "turtle" standard library module provides logo-like turtle
    graphics.
        http://www.python.org/doc/current/lib/module-turtle.html

    Two unrelated threads investigate pythoncom performance.  The second
    thread specifically looks at calling ADO from Python.
        http://groups.google.com/groups?th=87081640f325081f
        http://groups.google.com/groups?th=cd2810da4437737c

    Alex Martelli exposes with utter lucidity why Visual Basic,
    and not Python, is the risky and speculative technology.
	http://groups.google.com/groups?th=5773a3f58c6b95aa

    PythonTheater plays MPEG and AVI movies on Linux.
        http://xtheater.sourceforge.net/

    markow.py implements a classic programmer's toy: it chains words
    together to produce "dadaistic parodies of known bodies of text" -
    such as the comp.lang.python newsgroup.
        http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=mailman.1012965542.895.clpa-moderators%40python.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  
    Mygale is a news-gathering webcrawler that specializes in (new)
    World-Wide Web articles related to Python.
	 http://www.awaretek.com/nowak/mygale.html 
    While cosmetically similar, Mygale and the Daily Python-URL
    are utterly different in their technologies and generally in
    their results.

    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.org/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

    *Py: the Journal of the Python Language*
        http://www.pyzine.com

    Links2Go is a new semi-automated link collection; it's impressive
    what AI can generate
        http://www.links2go.com/search?search=python

    Tenth International Python Conference 
        http://www.python10.org            

    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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