Date: Tue, 19 Sep 2000 06:15:23 -0500 (CDT) Newsgroups: comp.lang.python Subject: Dr. Dobb's Python-URL! - weekly Python news and links (Sep 19) From: Grant Edwards <grante@visi.com> Sreekant announces Soth distributed processing environment Version 0.2 with visual configuration. http://deja.com/=dnc/getdoc.xp?AN=667291655 Chris Niekel writes Rio / Audio pseudo-random MP3 player. http://deja.com/=dnc/getdoc.xp?AN=667760950 Matthew Dixon Cowles provides some answers and links about cryptography. http://deja.com/=dnc/getdoc.xp?AN=668148247 More references and comments on encryption. http://deja.com/=dnc/getdoc.xp?AN=668203462 Pehr Anderson provides some information on how to do expect-like tasks with the popen2 module. http://deja.com/=dnc/getdoc.xp?AN=669051239 http://deja.com/=dnc/getdoc.xp?AN=669052645 Pearu Peterson announces FPIG - Fortran to Python Interface Generator. http://deja.com/=dnc/getdoc.xp?AN=668815403 gangli shows how to speed up os.path.walk under WinNT. http://deja.com/=dnc/getdoc.xp?AN=668876760 Fred Drake announces release of new doc package for 2.0b1. http://deja.com/=dnc/getdoc.xp?AN=668945340 Andrew Dalke presents Lye: a simple COM -> SOAP gateway. http://deja.com/=dnc/getdoc.xp?AN=669097153 David Abrahams releases py_cpp, a system exporting your C++ classes and functions in a Python extension module. http://deja.com/=dnc/getdoc.xp?AN=671045019 Jerome Alet releases XML generation module. http://deja.com/=dnc/getdoc.xp?AN=669132329 A final round of discussion about augmented assignment. http://deja.com/=dnc/getdoc.xp?AN=669297115 http://deja.com/=dnc/getdoc.xp?AN=669323870 (et al) David Goodger's pointer to numpy binaries for 1.5.2, 1.6, and 2.0. http://deja.com/=dnc/getdoc.xp?AN=669445399 Mo DeJong announces Python support in RH Source-Navigator 4.5.2. http://deja.com/=dnc/getdoc.xp?AN=669541146 Andrew Kuchling releases updated ZODB package. http://deja.com/=dnc/getdoc.xp?AN=669667791 Huaiyu Zhu announces MatPy 0.3.1 - a Matlab-like interface for linear algebra. http://deja.com/=dnc/getdoc.xp?AN=671105143 Huaiyu Zhu introduces PEP for new elementwise/objectwise operators. http://deja.com/=dnc/getdoc.xp?AN=671106583 Kare Sjolander announces v2.0 of the Snack Sound Toolkit. http://deja.com/=dnc/getdoc.xp?AN=671273429 ======================================================================== 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 although PythonLabs.com bills itself as "The Python Source", which is becoming increasingly true in 2000 http://www.pythonlabs.com/ PythonWare complements the digest you're reading with the daily python url http://www.pythonware.com/daily comp.lang.python.announce announces new Python software. Be sure to scan this newly-revitalized newsgroup at least weekly. http://deja.com/group/comp.lang.python.announce The Vaults of Parnassus ambitiously collects 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/ Python Consortium emerges as an independent nexus of activity http://www.python.org/consortium Cetus does much of the same http://www.cetus-links.de/oo_python.html Python FAQTS http://python.faqts.com/ Python To-Do List anticipates some of Python's future direction http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/todo.py Python Journal is at work on its second issue http://www.pythonjournal.com Links2Go is a new semi-automated link collection; it's impressive what AI can generate http://www.links2go.com/search?search=python Archive probing trick of the trade: http://www.dejanews.com/dnquery.xp?QRY=&DBS=2&ST=PS&defaultOp=AND&LNG=ALL&format=threaded&showsort=date&maxhits=100&groups=comp.lang.python Previous - (U)se the (R)esource, (L)uke! - messages are listed here: http://purl.org/thecliff/python/url.html or http://www.dejanews.com/dnquery.xp?QRY=~g%20comp.lang.python%20Python-URL%21 Suggestions/corrections for next week's posting are always welcome. [http://www.egroups.com/list/python-url-leads/ is hibernating. Just e-mail us ideas directly.] To receive a new issue of this posting in e-mail each Monday morning, ask <claird@neosoft.com> to subscribe. Mention "Python-URL!". -- The Python-URL! Team-- Dr. Dobb's Journal (http://www.ddj.com) is pleased to participate in and sponsor the "Python-URL!" project.