Dr. Dobb's Python-URL! - weekly Python news and links (Sep 9)
Dean Goodmanson
ponderor at lycos.com
Mon Sep 9 17:20:40 EDT 2002
QOTW: "I've had an interesting year - I've been coding in nothing but
Python (Unix & Win32) and *assembler* (embedded PIC processors). Talk
about a contrast! Yet in both cases, the languages 'Fit My Brain' for
the tasks at hand." - Tim Daneliuk
http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-list/2002-September/121704.html
"I'm too new to Python to give you good technical reasons to use it,
but I like it :)" - TeaAndBikkie
http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-list/2002-September/121789.html
"This is actually the first new program I've coded in C (rather than
Python) in a good four years or so." - Eric S. Raymond
http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-list/2002-September/121533.html
Threads..
The Python-dev list summary for 2002-08-16 - 2002-09-01:
http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-list/2002-September/121533.html
In light of the new PEP Format, Dr. David Mertz narrarates his
experience with text formatting markup methods:
http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-list/2002-August/120870.html
Python interprocess communication methods:
http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-list/2002-September/120900.html
Many thoughts on the cryptic nature of regular expressions:
http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-list/2002-September/120906.html
Duncan Booth points some of the relatively few gotchas he's
encountered when packaging a Python program into an EXE:
http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-list/2002-September/120984.html
Python-based Windows EXE's installation hints:
http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-list/2002-September/121711.html
Repeatable module import debuging tips:
http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-list/2002-September/120972.html
There are faster ways for building huge strings:
http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-list/2002-September/121103.html
Thorough response to algorithm question on 'Smoothing a discrete set
of data':
http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-list/2002-September/121777.html
Building Python on SCO issues discussed:
http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-list/2002-September/121231.html
Number-of-threads-implemented concern addressed:
http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-list/2002-September/121260.html
More answers on reasons to learn Python, with thoughts on PHP:
http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-list/2002-September/121264.html
Tim Rue is perplexing. This thread concludes with with an FAQ
that makes things as clear as possible.
http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-list/2002-September/121701.html
Question on encryption leads to intro, warnings and directions to
more detailed resources:
http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-list/2002-September/121270.html
How to handle stdin/stdout for daemonization:
http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-list/2002-September/121783.html
Thoughts on support for rebinding in nested scopes:
http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-list/2002-September/121531.html
Which database is right for 2000-3000 records?:
http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-list/2002-September/121546.html
Larry Wall's Python comments in his Slashdot interview
http://interviews.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/09/06/1343222&mode=nocomment
are discussed on the c.l.py:
http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-list/2002-September/121683.html
Software
xmlrpclib 1.0.1 includes Bug fixes and performance enhancements:
http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-announce-list/2002-September/001665.html
CherryPy? 0.6 adds SSL support:
http://www.cherrypy.org
JinSitu - Interactive introspection environment for Java and Jython:
http://www.krause-software.de/jinsitu/
Pyrex 0.4.4.1 now available:
http://www.cosc.canterbury.ac.nz/~greg/python/Pyrex/
PyGame 1.53 includes CD-ROM & MPEG object enhancements, Civil-0.8 and rectangle handling improvements:
http://www.pygame.org
lfm 0.9, UNIX Python Midnight Commander Clone:
http://www.terra.es/personal7/inigoserna/lfm
scgi 0.5 is now available from:
http://www.mems-exchange.org/software/scgi/
"spambayes" is a Python implementation of applying Bayesian
classifier to spam detection:
http://sf.net/projects/spambayes
New Stackless Python beta available:
http://www.stackless.com
'waccess' v. 2.0 web log analyzer is released at:
http://www.tundraware.com/Software/waccess/
Freeware 'AutoIt' Win32 UI test automation tool noted:
http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-list/2002-September/121681.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 continues Andrew Kuchling's marvelous tradition
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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