From: Cameron Laird <Cameron@Lairds.com> To: Dr.Dobb's.Python-URL.distribution@starbase.neosoft.com Subject: Dr. Dobb's Python-URL! - weekly Python news and links (Oct 24) Date: Wed, 24 Oct 2001 11:34:58 -0500 (CDT) Martin von Loewis prints Unicode characters, correctly. http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&frame=right&th=4ebacc23215578b In a discussion comparing string methods with string functions, David Bolen illustrates how wise performance people think about timing measurements. http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&frame=right&th=7c7a842b67944513 Stephen Figgins rhapsodizes the pleasures of interactive Python. http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/python/2001/10/11/pythonnews.html Donn Cave and Lucio Torre offer implementations of poll() in terms of select(), in both C and Python. http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&frame=right&th=dcc03957ae758bd9 Chimezie and Uche Ogbuji explain Python-based XML development. http://www-105.ibm.com/developerworks/education.nsf/ xml-onlinecourse-bytitle/ 28BEDEE3E7219EB386256AE300743B69?OpenDocument ActiveState releases PYXPCOM. http://www.ActiveState.com/Products/Komodo/PYXPCOM Zope's Page Templates match benefits with PHP, ASP, and so on. http://advogato.org/article/350.html *Zope Web Application Construction Kit* is a new book which promises to make Zope newcomers successful. http://www.samspublishing.com/detail_sams.cfm?item=0672321335 Boudewijn Rempt's PyQt book is ready. http://stage.linuxports.com/pyqt/book1.htm ======================================================================== 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 continued Andrew Kuchling's marvelous tradition of summarizing action on the python-dev mailing list once every other week, into July 2001. Any volunteers to re-start this valuable series? 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/ The old Python "To-Do List" now lives principally in a SourceForge reincarnation. http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?atid=355470&group_id=5470&func=browse http://python.sourceforge.net/peps/pep-0042.html 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.