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 (Jan 2) Date: Wed, 2 Jan 2002 10:59:31 -0600 (CST) After alphas, betas and release candidates, Python 2.2 "final" is available at long last. http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=mailman.1008968762.11408.clpa-moderators%40python.org Jython 2.1 was released recently, too. http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=mailman.1009809280.21269.python-list%40python.org One of the "special edition" versions of Python 2.2 is the one available for OS/2+EMX. http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=mailman.1009405444.3732.clpa-moderators%40python.org Binary packages do exist for less well-known operating systems - how about RISC OS? http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=mailman.1009109461.13764.clpa-moderators%40python.org Back in the "mainstream", MacPython 2.2 also quickly follows the main Python 2.2 release. http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=mailman.1009493112.645.clpa-moderators%40python.org And even the Sharp Zaurus gets Python 2.2c1, courtesy of Phil Thompson. http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=mailman.1008893605.27468.python-list%40python.org But will Python ever be available for Mono or .NET... or Parrot? Ron Stephens starts the new year with discussions on those themes. http://groups.google.com/groups?th=76afb2052769d3a7 http://groups.google.com/groups?th=f02f9f01e9d30d78 Stackless threads raise deep issues about coding style, concurrency mechanisms, and more. http://groups.google.com/groups?th=2442680516e6e52a http://groups.google.com/groups?th=597402650b88d48a Seemingly offering DTML-like templating, "Albatross is a small toolkit for developing highly stateful web applications." http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=mailman.1009405443.3730.clpa-moderators%40python.org How about client-side DHTML scripting in Python? A simple example is posted. http://groups.google.com/groups?th=c4ed88a3ad1fad59 Zope's documentation gets critical attention. How easy is it to persuade one's boss that Zope is just the thing? http://groups.google.com/groups?th=1221d8b190933982 Which of the Python books are most suitable for non-beginners? http://groups.google.com/groups?th=6d7debe411f805e2 It may excite more than a few people that Bruce Eckel's long-awaited work "Thinking in Python" is progressing. http://www.mindview.net/Books/TIPython It's a real shock when Python seems to have gone missing. In classic comp.lang.python style, the discussion wanders into areas such as line endings, distutils and Red Hat. http://groups.google.com/groups?th=b91141f106be4c9d Indeed, which version of Python is commonly in use, and what's going on with Python 1.5.2 on Red Hat Linux? http://groups.google.com/groups?th=c2ff830ed213cc1f Ciphon 0.3.5 is available - it's a CPAN-like package installer/downloader for Python. http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=slrna2n8hb.5kj.ssthapa%40hepcat.telocity.com XML Matters in Python, at least at IBM developerWorks. http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/xml/library/x-matters15.html?open&l=968,t=gr,p=rpc For all those game writing types, PyGame 1.3 is released to make their lives even easier. http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=3C219665.1050804%40shinners.org Michal Wallace invites comments on his Python billing system. http://www.sixthdev.com/wiki.cgi/duckbill Andreas Jung announces PyStemmer - a wrapper around the Snowball project. http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=mailman.1008886382.30332.clpa-moderators%40python.org And the greatest minds of Python put their heads together to work out how old they all are. http://groups.google.com/groups?th=13768ad1bd18542 ======================================================================== 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 Mygale is a news-gathering webcrawler that specializes in (new) World-Wide Web articles related to Python. http://www.awaretek.com/nowak/mygale.html While cosmetically similar, Mygale and the Daily Python-URL are utterly different in their technologies and generally in their results. 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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