From: Paul Boddie <paul@boddie.net> To: Dr.Dobb's.Python-URL.distribution@starbase.neosoft.com Subject: Dr. Dobb's Python-URL! - weekly Python news and links (Dec 10) Date: Mon, 10 Dec 2001 14:59:34 -0600 (CST) comp.lang.python: where else are programmers so ready to compute femtosecond intervals? Since Python Enhancement Proposals (PEPs) became part of the process of improving Python, quite a few have been floated, flamed and even accepted and appreciated. James Althoff isn't merely content to wait for others to polish PEP 276, however, which wants to let you write your integer ranges in a nicer way. http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=mailman.1007424313.28420.python-list%40python.org Bizarre "bug or feature" of the week goes to request #210830 - available at... http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?group_id=5470&atid=105470&func=detail&aid=210830 http://groups.google.com/groups?threadm=6ac595a2.0112041944.75dab62b% 40posting.google.com&rnum=1 On the subject of "debugging for dummies", some interesting tricks with Michael Hudson's pyrepl are showcased. If you've been happy with trace statements and just aren't motivated to set up that debugger, then this might be for you! http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=3b091a1c.0112060650.1f185978%40posting.google.com The Refereed Paper Track of IPC10--titles, authors, Best Paper Award nominations, ...--is complete. http://www.python10.org/p10-paperTrack1.html Providing COM servers on Windows platforms isn't hard when Duncan Booth posts an example of how it can be done. http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=Xns916E9F71480C7duncanrcpcouk%40127.0.0.1 Duncan's code must be formatted with spaces in order to survive the ravages of the Internet, which brings us to a point of contention... tabs or spaces - which form of indentation should be banned?! Fredrik Lundh attempts to draw the discussion to a close, inadvertently revealing his own indentation preference. http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=lrTO7.728%24l93.293881%40newsb.telia.net In the heat of the discussion light emerges from Tony J Ibbs' corner of the debating chamber, where he refers us to the work of Logilab; happen if people started to plug all these XML tools together... http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=mailman.1007633352.28265.python-list%40python.org http://www.logilab.org/pypasax/ ActiveState releases Visual Python 1.0, the Python plugin to Visual Studio .NET. Features include: syntax-aware editor, auto-indenting, code folding, Python-specific debugger, ... http://www.ActiveState.com/VisualPython Guido and friends are not the only people inspired by the "original" Python. Some of the results are more directly derived from the works of the comedy team in question, though. (Sadly, you'll need access to "proprietary" video players to get the benefit of this final URL for the week.) http://www.lego.com/eng/studios/studioinfo/montypython.as ======================================================================== 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. 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Team-- Dr. Dobb's Journal (http://www.ddj.com) is pleased to participate in and sponsor the "Python-URL!" project. >From paul@boddie.net Thu Dec 6 05:27:59 2001 Received: from mx13.nameplanet.com (mail@mx13.nameplanet.com [62.70.3.43]) by starbase.neosoft.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id FAA68477 for <claird@starbase.neosoft.com>; Thu, 6 Dec 2001 05:27:58 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from paul@boddie.net) From: paul@boddie.net Received: 6 Dec 2001 11:18:24 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO www3.nameplanet.com) (192.168.2.43) by mx13 with SMTP; 6 Dec 2001 11:18:24 -0000 Received: (qmail 3544 invoked by uid 400); 6 Dec 2001 11:18:24 -0000 Date: 6 Dec 2001 11:18:24 -0000 Message-ID: <20011206111824.3543.qmail@www3.nameplanet.com> To: claird@starbase.neosoft.com MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: Re: How would you like Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Status: R Hello, Well, it looks fairly straightforward, in that it's an extension of my usual activities of surfing and gathering. From the Python-URL! messages of the past, I can see that there's a top section specific to the week's activities, and there's a bottom section which contains generic references which appear more or less unchanged each time. >>From the Tcl-URL! digest guidelines document you referred to in your message, I assume that I'll be preparing the top section of Python-URL! and sending it off to you for the "boilerplates" to be added, and that this would need to be done before the 5am CST deadline each Monday - that would be 11am GMT wouldn't it? I think I can handle the pressure, so if I understand the job's responsibilities correctly, then I will gladly take you up on your offer. It might even widen my perspectives somewhat in the process. :-) When do I start?! Regards, Paul -- Get your firstname@lastname email at http://Nameplanet.com/?su