From:	 Paul Prescod <paulp@ActiveState.com>
To:	 Dr.Dobb's.Python-URL.distribution@starbase.neosoft.com
Subject: Dr. Dobb's Python-URL! - weekly Python news and links (May 28)
Date:	 Mon, 28 May 2001 08:38:08 -0500 (CDT)

    If you need to build big strings quickly you'll be interested in 
    recent benchmarks on string concatenation versus list/array append 
    versus cStringIO:
        http://groups.google.com/groups?ic=1&th=890e86bf6037a5d7,2

    Roughly once a year, someone notices that the theoretical worst-case
    behavior of Python's lists (on some platforms) is worse than it
    could be. This thread highlights the problem and possible solutions:
        http://groups.google.com/groups?ic=1&selm=3B0DED72.41317BCE%40accessone.com
        http://groups.google.com/groups?ic=1&selm=mailman.990777219.15397.python-list%40python.org

    What's the status of the PSF? The relationship to ActiveState? 
    The Python license?  Its relationship to the GPL? Answers to these 
    questions and many more:
        http://groups.google.com/groups?ic=1&th=7fceebdf3f902784,5

    Supports of the lambda statement were out in full force this week:
        http://groups.google.com/groups?ic=1&selm=mailman.990635563.6483.python-list%40python.org

    A recent thread discusses strategies for using Python in an
    autoconf-based build process:
        http://groups.google.com/groups?ic=1&th=396681326a5473b3,13

    There are multiple options for running Python on a hand-held

        http://groups.google.com/groups?ic=1&th=90972a58d88f8c92,6

    Marc-Andre Lemburg reports that the Daily Python URL can be downloaded

        http://groups.google.com/groups?ic=1&selm=mailman.990698255.23655.python-list%40python.org

    Rich Salz announces a sourceforge project and mailing list for Web
    Services (SOAP, UDDI, etc.)
        http://groups.google.com/groups?ic=1&selm=17214de2.0105230851.341d56f5%40posting.google.com

    Narval 1.0 has been released. "Narval is a framework (language +
    interpreter + GUI/IDE) dedicated to the setting up of intelligent
    personal assistants (IPAs)." Narval is GPLed.
        http://www.logilab.org/narval

    A recent thread discusses why recent versions of Red Hat ship with
    an ancient version of Python.
        http://groups.google.com/groups?ic=1&th=f041d7bbf9e13c24,12


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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  

    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.*

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