Dr. Dobb's Python-URL! - weekly Python news and links (Oct 21)
Erik Max Francis
max at alcyone.com
Mon Oct 21 09:34:31 EDT 2002
QOTW: "I regard [the Stackless technology merge] as the beginning of the
reunion of my brain halves." Christian Tismer
http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=mailman.1034834665.3845.python-list%40python.org
"This is Rule #1 of Python optimization: Any Python program using a dict is
1000x faster than any C program. There are no exceptions to this rule
<ahem>." Tim Peters
Articles
Christian Tismer announces a long-anticipated technology merge for
Stackless:
http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=mailman.1034834665.3845.python-list%40python.org
Threads
A question about SOAP.py leads to a productive discussion of the
relative merits of SOAP and XML-RPC, and how they relate to Python:
http://groups.google.com/groups?threadm=73c9b534.0210190805.559c4b92%40posting.google.com
Discussion of a "Python pattern repository," a sort of implicit
Cookbook on Usenet/Google keyed off with searchable token:
http://groups.google.com/groups?threadm=Xns92ABD92A93C6Ccliechtigmxnet%4062.2.16.82
A frequently asked question about what makes Python a good
language, with its frequently answered and constructive answers:
http://groups.google.com/groups?threadm=v1dtoa.rj3.ln%40ix.netcom.com
Software
Python version 2.2.2 is officially released:
http://www.python.org/2.2.2/
Stackless Python has been ported to vesion 2.2.2 a day after its
release:
http://www.stackless.com/
Greg Ewing releases version 0.4.5 of Pyrex, which includes a
'public' declaration for making Pyrex-defined variables and
functions accessible to external C code:
http://www.cosc.canterbury.ac.nz/~greg/python/Pyrex/
Greg Ward announces version 1.4 of Optik, a command-line parsing
library:
http://optik.sourceforge.net/
Barry A. Warsaw announces the release of version 2.0 of ht2html,
the Web page templating system which is used to build the
www.python.org site:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/ht2html
XIST version 2.0 is an XML-based extensible HTML generator (and
DOM parser) written in Python:
http://www.livinglogic.de/Python/xist/
Active Spam Killer version 2.2 is a Python-powered antispam tool
which uses whitelist techniques:
http://www.paganini.net/ask/
IMGV version 2.2 is a platform-independent image viewer using
Python and pygame:
http://www.seekrut.com/toxicpulse/imgv/imgv.html
Meetings and courses
Enthought announces a "Building C/C++ Extensions for Python"
course, taught by David Beazley, David Abrahams, and Eric Jones,
to take place in Austin, Texas on December 9-11:
http://www.enthought.com/training/building_extensions.html
MEETUP organizes the first International Python Meetup Day for
November 14, 7 pm local time everywhere:
http://python.meetup.com/
Resources
Uche Ogbuji has written an article outlining how to use Python
generators in conjunction with XML processing:
http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/xml/library/x-tipgenr.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
Brett Cannon continues the marvelous tradition established by
Andrew Kuchling and Michael Hudson of summarizing action on the
python-dev mailing list once every other week.
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.
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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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