From: Cameron Laird <claird@neosoft.com> To: Dr.Dobb's.Python-URL.distribution@starbase.neosoft.com Subject: Dr. Dobb's Python-URL! - weekly Python news and links (Aug 30) Date: Thu, 30 Aug 2001 11:36:52 -0500 (CDT) QOTW: Visual Basic "is chaotic and largish, but not very expressive, as opposed to small, tight, elegant, clean and amazingly powerful Python." Alex Martelli Sean Reifschneider (and others) analyze WebWare (and other Python-savvy Web server solutions). http://lists.community.tummy.com/pipermail/frpythoneers/2001-August/000452.html Jeremy Lowery tells about "Creating ASP Pages with Python". http://www.4guysfromrolla.com/webtech/082201-1.shtml Greg Stein pushes the Python WebDAV module forward. http://python.sourceforge.net/peps/pep-0268.html Tinter is a surprisingly capable curses-based user-interface toolkit. http://www.vex.net/parnassus/apyllo.py?i=97497223 Max_M=F8ller_Rasmussen and Marcus Stojek teach UEdit to recognize Python. http://groups.google.com/groups?th=76ed5ec5449f679e Sheila King offers a clean solution for the ancient annoyance of file-locking. Remember to read the follow-ups. http://groups.google.com/groups?th=f27682d95a0fa6c1 ======================================================================== 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://www.ddj.com/topics/pythonurl/ http://purl.org/thecliff/python/url.html (dormant) 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.