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From: "Emile van Sebille" <emile@fcfw.fenx.com>
To: Dr.Dobb's.Python-URL.distribution@starbase.neosoft.com
Subject: Dr. Dobb's Python-URL! - weekly Python news and links (Jun 26)
Date: Tue, 26 Jun 2001 07:10:56 -0500 (CDT)
Guido announces the release of Python 2.0.1, a maintenance release
with a revised license that is GPL compatible.
http://groups.google.com/groups?ic=1&q=msgid:mailman.993230040.28120.python-list@python.org
Andrew MacIntyre releases an OS/2 port of python 2.1.
http://groups.google.com/groups?ic=1&q=msgid:mailman.992804846.18097.python-list@python.org
Michael Stroeder releases web2ldap, a web-based generic LDAP client
written in Python.
http://groups.google.com/groups?ic=1&q=msgid:3B3517E0.9571A361@stroeder.com
David Beazley sparks <g> discussion on function attributes when he
announces PLY-1.0, a 100% Python implementation of the common
parsing tools lex and yacc.
http://groups.google.com/groups?ic=1&q=msgid:mailman.992921580.28727.clpa-moderators@python.org
Markus Gritsch introduces VideoCapture, a Python extension for
Win32 which makes it possible to access the video device.
http://groups.google.com/groups?ic=1&q=msgid:mailman.992921580.28726.clpa-moderators@python.org
Dave Cole announces Sybase module 0.26, which provides a Python
Database API version 2.0 interface to the Sybase relational database
system.
http://groups.google.com/groups?ic=1&q=msgid:m33d8xkuvz.fsf@vole.object-craft.com.au
Robin Becker release version 1.08 of the ReportLab toolkit, which
now includes initial support for Mac OS 9.
http://groups.google.com/groups?ic=1&q=msgid:oX4bSqA5yzL7Ew5m@jessikat.demon.co.uk
Fred Drake issues updates of the 2.2 development version...
http://groups.google.com/groups?ic=1&q=msgid:mailman.993236248.3156.python-list@python.org
...and the 2.1.1 maintenance version documentation.
http://groups.google.com/groups?ic=1&q=msgid:mailman.993234922.2134.python-list@python.org
Michel Pelletier has written the first in a series of articles
on the Zope Object Database (ZODB).
http://groups.google.com/groups?ic=1&q=msgid:mailman.992895416.23209.python-list@python.org
David Goodger starts reStructuredText, a candidate markup syntax
for the Python Docstring Processing System as per PEPs 256, 257 &
258.
http://groups.google.com/groups?ic=1&q=msgid:B7558512.13268%25dgoodger@bigfoot.com
Kevin Altis starts a mailing list to discuss creation of PythonCard.
http://groups.google.com/groups?ic=1&q=msgid:qdVX6.1963$zE1.721339@news.uswest.net
Paul Prescod shows us where to find pyperl, a module that allows
Perl code to be run from Python...
http://www.cpan.org/modules/by-module/LWP/GAAS/pyperl-1.0.readme
... and Alex Martelli points us to Minotaur, which allows mixing
Python, Perl and TCL.
http://www.equi4.com/minotaur/minotaur.html
Steve Majewski found that Microsoft's EULA for the Mobile Internet
Toolkit Beta 2 restricts developers from distributing the software
in conjunction with Potentially Viral Software.
http://groups.google.com/groups?ic=1&q=msgid:mailman.993174742.10326.python-list@python.org
It appeared the page referred to was quickly removed from Microsoft's
site; then Alastair Burt re-found it.
http://msdn.microsoft.com/downloads/eula_mit.htm
The Vienna Python Interest Group (PIGgie) has just been formed this
month.
http://groups.google.com/groups?ic=1&th=1c92ecc5f025a11f,1
IBM devloperWorks has just published the second part of Uche
Ogbuji's PyXPCOM article. Great quote: "Python is famous for making rapid
development in Java actually possible, and PyXPCOM brings the same
benefit to XPCOM."
http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/components/library/co-pyxp2.html
developerWorks is really digging Python these days. They've also
published David Mertz's article on Python and XML:
http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/xml/library/l-pxml.html?open&l=913,t=grx,p=xpyth
Python's growth into the educational market continues. Eric Raymond
spotted this endorsement from a university in the land down, under
and a little to the left:
http://it.mycareer.com.au/news/2001/06/05/FFX9ZT7UENC.html
If your local college doesn't provide it then maybe you can get to
Learning Tree's classes in Chicago during the next few hours
(June 26):
http://www.learningtree.com/us/ilt/courses/430.htm
You may have heard that there is now an operating system for Lego
(Lego Mindstorms LegOS). And there is even a Python module to talk
to it. These aren't the inanimate blocks of our childhood!
http://www.hare.demon.co.uk/lego/pylnp.html
A new Python user proclaims that his relationship with Python has moved
to a new level. There's a lot of love in this newsgroup <sniff>.
http://groups.google.com/groups?ic=1&th=8a31b51350a5fcc9,1
Pgnotify is still wet behind the ears (ver 0.1) but we're proud to
announce it: "a PostgreSQL client-side asynchronous notification
handler for Python."
http://www.post1.com/home/ngps/pgnotify/
Python receives a lot of good press in an article on Slashdot asking
about the next step beyond Visual Basic. While the questioner is
eviscerated (Slashdot style), reviews of Python are positive:
http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=01%2F06%2F08%2F2140257
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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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