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 (Nov 28) Date: Wed, 28 Nov 2001 11:40:44 -0600 (CST) "Python tries to make difficult things easy while making easy things stay fairly easy." Paul Rubin "Basically, I just sit there and read e-mail." "... I think Python will be able to position itself as a sort of Visual Basic-like language in the embedded space ..." "... [W]hen I was dating my wife ... I had better things to do with my time [than figure out PalmOS development tools]." Guido van Rossum, <URL: http://www.linux-mag.com/2001-12/toc.html > Object persistence! Application service! Nanotechnology! Type information! Docstring tricks! Andrew Kuchling touches on all this, and more, in a too-little-known paper. http://www.amk.ca/python/writing/mx-architecture http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&frame=right&th=1417d223e1605c9c Ron Stephens and David Mertz publish reviews of over a dozen Python books. http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/linux/library/l-pbook2.html http://www.awaretek.com/book.html Martin Brown publishes a Python book for Perl users. http://cseng.aw.com/book/backcover/0,3828,0201734885,00.html Amos Latteier publishes an important tutorial on Zope Page Templates. http://webtechniques.com/archives/2001/12/latteier/ While the venerable embedding-and-extending www.python.org documentation remains venerable, Kragen Sitaker and David Brady work out their own simple model for invoking Python from C. http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&frame=right&th=2402ef885355cd18 Simon Cozens engagingly reports on a Python-pertinent conference. http://www.perl.com/pub/a/2001/11/21/lightweight.html Developers continue their search for the right handle(s) on XML, with recent emphasis on XSLT and parsing. http://www-105.ibm.com/developerworks/education.nsf/xml-onlinecourse-bytitle/BE1A7E60838F9F7686256AF400523C58?open&l=810,t=grx,p=pyx2 http://diveintopython.org/ Psyco progress fascinates the performance-obsessed. http://homepages.ulb.ac.be/~arigo/psyco/ Jext acquires Jython scriptability. http://www.jext.org/ ======================================================================== 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 Tenth International Python Conference http://www.python10.org 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.