From: "Steve Holden" <sholden@holdenweb.com> To: Dr.Dobb's.Python-URL.distribution@starbase.neosoft.com Subject: Dr. Dobb's Python-URL! - weekly Python news and links (Apr 30) Date: Mon, 30 Apr 2001 13:08:50 -0500 (CDT) Public Relations ... Mike Orr's write up of Python 9 is published in Linux Journal: http://noframes.linuxjournal.com/articles/conversations/0024.html Peter Liljenberg, one of Pointless Window Manager's developers, is interviewed by LinuxPlanet: http://www.linuxplanet.com/linuxplanet/opinions/3267/1/ Announcements ... Chris Gonnerman announces an alternative readline for Windows: http://groups.google.com/groups?ic=1&th=5f3aa9b9ba3bba35 Jason Mastaler announces an OSI-certified Tagged Message Delivery Agent for qmail, to reduce the amount of spam you receive (but remains silent about eggs, chips and beans): http://tmda.sourceforge.net/ Marc-André Lemburg announces version 0.2.0 of mxNumber, with support for rational types: http://groups.google.com/groups?ic=1&th=cf082df25bdad48c as well as a new packaging of mxBASE and mxCommercial for all current Python releases: http://www.lemburg.com/files/python/ Frederic Giacometti announces the beta release of the Java-Python extension: http://groups.google.com/groups?ic=1&th=7aa72d42c08a7dbc Pearu Peterson announces an initial release of PyGiNaC, a Python interface to a symbolic computation package: http://cens.ioc.ee/projects/pyginac/ Discussions ... The group discussed various ways to slice up a matrix represented as a list of tuples: http://groups.google.com/groups?ic=1&th=1b328f23e3a3d40 Fredrik Lundh comes up with a way to apply standard exception handling to all methods of a class: http://groups.google.com/groups?ic=1&th=650d06497eb83884 Brandon J Van Every's innocent question about function pointers triggers a barrage of suggestions about things Python can do with functions that other languages cannot: http://groups.google.com/groups?ic=1&th=31b839b29e76a3fc A talk about SmallScript reveals the prospect that Python might in the far future compile for a more general virtual machine (see message 5 in the thread to finf the original poster's reference): http://groups.google.com/groups?ic=1&th=b121faa695c8b6fa Andrew MacIntyre reminds us of one way to get XML parsers: http://groups.google.com/groups?ic=1&th=26b00b08425b8fe9 Jeff Shipman elicits many responses about how to print everything in a list, mostly without a print statement: http://groups.google.com/groups?ic=1&th=e2cb1c655d3aa7b4 ======================================================================== 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 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.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 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.* Previous - (U)se the (R)esource, (L)uke! - messages are listed here: http://purl.org/thecliff/python/url.html or http://groups.google.com/groups?oi=djq&as_q=+Python-URL!&as_ugroup=comp.lang.python 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.