Dr. Dobb's Python-URL! - weekly Python news and links (Mar 11)
Jason Orendorff
jason at jorendorff.com
Mon Mar 11 08:54:11 EST 2002
QOTW: "I am once again stunned by how good the Python standard library is.
I spent an afternoon surfing and assumed I'd have to write code, but
urllib does most of what I want by default." -Andy Robinson
Seek fame & fortune as a Python developer!
http://groups.google.com/groups?th=78c19cf834778b56
http://www.amk.ca/python/writing/python-dev.html
Disipyl is a Python interface to DISLIN, a plotting library. Cool
screenshots.
http://pantheon.yale.edu/~pmm34/disipyl.html
RPy is a Python interface to R, a programming language and environment
for statistical computing and graphics.
http://rpy.sourceforge.net/
http://www.r-project.org/
BBLImage is a collection of tools for processing volume images,
especially medical images; it includes Pyvox, a Python extension for
large multi-dimensional arrays.
http://www.med.upenn.edu/bbl/bblimage
lfm v0.8 is released. lfm is a 'midnight commander' clone written
in Python.
http://www.terra.es/personal7/inigoserna/lfm
Mitchell Charity uses PyInline to add an interesting postscript to an
essay by Guido about optimizing Python code.
http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=mailman.1015705101.26116.python-list%40python.org
François Pinard shows how to convert images to monochrome with PIL
in a single line of code.
http://groups.google.com/groups?th=ad62f29aff8871a6
A question about Python weblogs and Web scripting yields a variety of
Web-based weblog applications and Web scripting libraries.
http://groups.google.com/groups?th=2e56b5ff1042343a
Squishdot - http://www.squishdot.org/Documentation
Plone - http://plone.org
Albatross - http://www.object-craft.com.au/projects/albatross
Webware WebKit - http://webware.sourceforge.net
HTMLTMPL - http://htmltmpl.sourceforge.net
jonpy - http://jonpy.sourceforge.net
Mike Olson and Uche Ogbuji examine the Zolera SOAP Interface in this
article, the second in a series.
http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/library/ws-pyth6
Python User Groups now have their own page on the Python web site:
http://www.python.org/UserGroups.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
*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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