Dr. Dobb's Python-URL! - weekly Python news and links (Jun 24)
Emile van Sebille
emile at fcfw.fenx.com
Mon Jun 24 17:20:47 EDT 2002
QOTW: "I read with pleasure all the thread saying that `roundup' has an
email interface, is actively being improved, and could replace the SF
tracker. Let us hope it will be more usable than its precessors! You
know, the real goal of all this is allowing for simple and humble
communication between humans, about the knowledge of a problem. I
surely used to be a very active reporter for all problems I saw
everywhere, at the time maintainers were still reachable. When the
effort gets too frustrating, sadly, one might feel less inclined to
offer contributions, and rather choose to enjoy more of the sun, music,
and life! :-)" -- François Pinard on python-dev, Jun 1 2002
Travis N. Vaught announces a Python for Scientific Computing Workshop
at CalTech, Pasadena, CA September 5-6, 2002. This workshop provides
a unique opportunity to learn and affect what is happening in the
realm of scientific computing with Python. Space is limited.
http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=mailman.1024366882.23776.python-list@python.org
On the question of text to html conversion, Gilles point to
StructuredText in Zope as a package that can be used "standalone".
He also provides a dozen lines of code as a start:
http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=aen4n1$35b$1@norfair.nerim.net
The European Python and Zope Conference 2002 happens June 26-28 in
Charleroi, Belgium. It promises to be a great show.
...for general information, see
http://europython.zope.nl
...and for schedule and information on the talks being given see
http://europython.zope.nl/sessions/talks
Fernando Perez on tools for python in science, in response to a question
of experiences teaching Biology students with python support.
http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=aeqfuh$88n$1@peabody.colorado.edu
Lamy Jean-Baptiste releases TreeWidget 0.2 a pure-Python tree widget
for Tkinter...
http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=mailman.1024601110.13018.clpa-moderators@python.org
...and EventObj 0.2, a pure Python module that allows to add modification
callback (=event) to any Python object (including lists and dicts).
http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=mailman.1024601109.12981.clpa-moderators@python.org
Gerhard Haring asks if a python based procmail replacement exists, and
Radovan Garabik reminds us that he's written one...
http://groups.google.com/groups?threadm=mailman.1024444823.19953.python-list@python.org
...Francois Pinard also posts a summary of additional options...
http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=mailman.1024451876.25700.python-list@python.org
Tom Loredo needs to move into Windows and asks for advise on proceeding:
http://groups.google.com/groups?threadm=3D110B55.4D8AD7FA@astro.cornell.edu
Steven M. Castellotti gets help connecting to the Microsoft Speech API
to synthesize Text-To-Speech output, then posts the working result:
http://groups.google.com/groups?threadm=U_6Q8.39803$ks6.8500@nwrddc02.gnilink.net
Here's a discussion on implementing and representing infinity (eg 1e400)
in python but if you use it, be sure to test on the target platforms.
http://groups.google.com/groups?threadm=3d11ee9b$1@news.swissonline.ch
Anyone ever needed a Queue with timeout? Chris Liechti posts a working
implementation.
http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=Xns9234F249D7D85cliechtigmxnet@62.2.16.82
Angela Williams asks for clarification on Python's FAQ 6.26. Why no goto?
One gem I found in this thread was a counter proposal for COME FROM...
* Example:
10 J=1
11 COME FROM 20
12 WRITE (6,40) J STOP
13 COME FROM 10
20 J=J+2
40 FORMAT (14)
* Explanation:
In this example, J is set to 1 by statement 10. Statement 13 then
causes control to be passed to statement 20, which sets J to 3.
Statement 11 then causes control to be passed to statement 12, which
writes the current value of J. The STOP statement then terminates the
program.
...For more like this, see (Thank Carl Banks for the pointer)
http://www.fortran.com/fortran/come_from.html
...For the current discussion on GOTO and python, start here:
http://groups.google.com/groups?threadm=uh1s1qdcl5b1b0@news.supernews.com
One lump or two? If you're easily distracted by the rules of
punctuation, you may want to follow this thread on python-dev:
http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2002-June/025074.html
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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
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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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