Dr. Dobb's Python-URL! - weekly Python news and links (Feb 4)
Paul Boddie
paul at boddie.net
Mon Feb 4 21:28:27 EST 2002
QOTW: "[B]elieve it or not the big money is in tracking golf carts." Larry
"Software basically sucks." Tim Peters
"One less file is one less thing to get screwed up in the distribution,
IMHO." Joshua Muskovitz
Stackless Python returns with a 2.2 alpha release!
http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=mailman.1012273506.27877.clpa-moderators%40python.org
Brian represents Zope Corporation in releasing Zope 2.5.0.
http://www.zope.org/Products/Zope/2.5.0/zope_250_release
List comprehensions meet generators for the first time (in theory, at
least) but nested scopes remain conspicuously absent.
http://groups.google.com/groups?th=215e6e5a7bfd526
http://groups.google.com/groups?th=df8b5e7709957eb7
The dataflow.py toolkit provides dataflow-oriented programming in
Python... using iterators and generators.
http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=mailman.1012487991.6116.python-list%40python.org
The print magazine "Py" is ready for preordering.
http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=mailman.1012673764.20183.clpa-moderators%40python.org
The O'Reilly Open Source Convention is looking for Python and Zope
participants.
http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=mailman.1012273503.27874.clpa-moderators%40python.org
And the Ottawa Linux Symposium calls for papers.
http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=mailman.1012273504.27875.clpa-moderators%40python.org
The eGenix.com extensions (such as the popular mxDateTime and mxODBC)
now have their own mailing list.
http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=mailman.1012319341.25785.clpa-moderators%40python.org
Herbrip is a Python implementation of an e-mail encryption system.
http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=slrna5b46q.cfu.philh%40comuno.freeserve.co.uk
PyReverse reaches 0.2.2 but, on the subject of CASE tools and class
diagrams, is there anything in Python which understands XMI?
http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=mailman.1012273502.27872.clpa-moderators%40python.org
http://groups.google.com/groups?th=f061a3675d191d99
SilverCity understands lexical details about a number of languages.
http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=mailman.1012684745.32090.python-list%40python.org
How can you find out which methods belong to an object? Use the
inspect module, of course!
http://groups.google.com/groups?th=38e85ff1b283359f
Python is a useful tool in both vim and Emacs.
http://www.vex.net/parnassus/apyllo.py?i=860466779
http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=mailman.1012352629.27652.python-list%40python.org
System administration often involves password management; for example,
how can one change passwords on Windows?
http://groups.google.com/groups?th=8cec4679a555ef35
John DeWeese discovers Panda3D on SourceForge - it's a Python-driven
rendering engine.
http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=a3b24h%24kc6%241%40usc.ed
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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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