Dr. Dobb's Python-URL! - weekly Python news and links (Jul 30)

Tue Jul 30 15:46:51 EDT 2002

QOTW:  "If you don't have time to learn another language, then you
will likely never realize any of the benefits that Python, and learning
Python, might have to offer."  -- George Demmy

"... -- doing nothing gracefully is important because there's sometimes
nothing that needs be done <wink>."  timbot
http://groups.google.com/groups?q=g:thl477273455d&dq=&hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&selm=mailman.1026524959.15573.python-list%40python.org     

    Michiel de Hoon gets help and works through making a windows
    installer on cygwin with distutils.
        http://groups.google.com/groups?threadm=3D3CD77B.1040102@ims.u-tokyo.ac.jp

    Erik Max Francis announces the rebirth of Munch as empy 1.0, 
    a system for embedding Python expressions and statements in 
    template text (or any other unexecuted content) which replaced
    GNU m4 as a macro processor for its author.
        http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=3D3DBE23.4E164323@alcyone.com

    Raymond Smith releases Fnorb 1.2, which incorporates a number 
    of changes required to make Fnorb a truly pure-Python based 
    ORB including a pure Python IDL parser and pure Python CDR 
    processing. It represents the first stable release of Fnorb 
    since it was open sourced. 
        http://sourceforge.net/projects/fnorb

    Guido van Rossum makes his Powerpoint slides for his keynotes 
    addresses at EuroPython and OSCON available.
        http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=mailman.1027555542.30285.python-list@python.org

    Currencies and decimal places without saying the "f" word...
        http://groups.google.com/groups?threadm=mailman.1027484434.16234.python-list@python.org

    Joost Jacob launches a Project to provide functions to turn a 
    Python class into a server.
        http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=13285ea2.0207250503.b974470@posting.google.com

    Greg Ewing releases version 0.4 of Pyrex, a new language for 
    writing Python extension modules.  It lets you freely mix 
    operations on Python and C data, with  all Python reference 
    counting and error checking handled automatically.
        http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=mailman.1027522928.20293.clpa-moderators@python.org

    Clark C. Evans releases pyYaml v0.21.  YAML(tm) is a machine 
    parsable data serialization format designed for human readability
    and is optimized for data serialization, configuration settings,
    log files, Internet messaging and filtering.
        http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=mailman.1027570414.31317.python-list@python.org

    David Levy asks for tips on SOAP.py and complex types information
    for input messages that require user defined types like the one for 
    the new Amazon web service.
        http://groups.google.com/groups?threadm=3D3BDD02.3997B185@xrce.xerox.com

    A history unfolds when Philippe Gendreau asks "What is it with 
    the '_'. I have seen it used in many places for what seems to 
    be different purposes."
        http://groups.google.com/groups?threadm=mailman.1027526320.10233.python-list@python.org

    Larry needs help getting UDP Multicast to work properly.
        http://groups.google.com/groups?threadm=PuF%8.650192$cQ3.104714@sccrnsc01

    Dave Cinege announces proctitle, a stand alone module that manipulates
    the 'argv[]' (process listing) of the Python process allowing one to 
    change the output seen from 'ps'.  It is useful for hiding 'python',
    an argument that is a password, or update process information.
        http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=mailman.1027382614.7327.python-list@python.org

    Bobby Beckmann releases PyDumper, a GDB helper script that wraps GDB 
    and is able to extract a stack trace and all relevant data (func args, 
    globals, locals, instance vars) to help debugging apps that get stuck.
        http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=3D3F805E.9050205@piels.com

    Eugene Kim wants to make a p2p application in python like napster.
        http://groups.google.com/groups?threadm=ahdqla$kd$2@newsreader.mailgate.org

    Jay O'Connor wonders about writing a distributed Python framework, 
    and will save the effort finding many to choose from.
        http://groups.google.com/groups?threadm=20020724.064941.722308542.1589@cybermesa.com

    Markus von Ehr bumps into a known bug that causes the DOS-Shell 
    to hangs when using python/Tkinter.
        http://groups.google.com/groups?threadm=3D3FBF1A.C1531FB3@ipm.fhg.de

    Gerard A.W. Vreeswijk asks for a function wrapper a la Perl's 
    Hook::WrapSub and gets a quick roll-your-own response.
        http://groups.google.com/groups?threadm=3D3E9F34.90FB8B3F@cs.uu.nl

    Remi Delon introduces freecherrypy.org providing Free CherryPy hosting.
    CherryPy is a Python-based tool for developing dynamic websites.
        http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=585c0de9.0207252302.558a7953@posting.google.com

    Michael Hudson recalls, locates, then adapts this regular expression.
    Care to guess what it does? Or how it works? (helpful names changed)
    >>> def x(num, ex=re.compile(r"^1?$|^(11+?)\1+$")):
    ...  return ex.match('1'*num) is None
        http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=lkadoekcqj.fsf@pc150.maths.bris.ac.uk

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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

    The online Python Journal is posted at pythonjournal.cognizor.com.
    editor at pythonjournal.com and editor at pythonjournal.cognizor.com
    welcome submission of material that helps people's understanding
    of Python use, and offer Web presentation of your work.

    *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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