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 14) Date: Mon, 14 Jan 2002 12:20:40 -0600 (CST) Python 2.1.2c1 is released, but which version of Python is the "real deal"? http://groups.google.com/groups?th=e4b3d28366e91b2e Pyreverse-0.1 isn't just about reverse engineering - documentation generation and dependency analysis are tempting features. http://groups.google.com/groups?th=d558b917cda81073 XPipe brings the "assembly line" approach to XML processing. http://xpipe.sourceforge.net Reptile Web Server is another Python Web server with interesting features. http://www.vex.net/parnassus/apyllo.py?i=875970117 For graphical user interfaces in Tkinter, there's Tix, Tixapps and SpecTix. http://www.vex.net/parnassus/apyllo.py?i=282309491 http://www.vex.net/parnassus/apyllo.py?i=871394850 http://www.vex.net/parnassus/apyllo.py?i=893488186 IPy provides support for understanding and manipulating IP addresses. http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=mailman.1010435881.3423.clpa-moderators%40python.org Roundup 0.4.0b1 is an issue-tracking system with multiple user interfaces. http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=mailman.1010535060.21853.clpa-moderators%40python.org Another project related to the Software Carpentry competitions is SCons 0.03. http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=mailman.1010759845.5091.python-list%40python.org Of interest to mxODBC users, mx COMMERCIAL Extension Package 2.0.4 for Python 2.2 is released. http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=mailman.1010760256.6724.python-list%40python.org Criticism of Python's performance usually brings out interesting tips. Here, PyInline and Numeric are demonstrated in the subsequent investigation. http://groups.google.com/groups?th=11ff341f7cc1f6aa Metaclasses seem to be getting more exposure... in discussions of the comparative merits of Python and Ruby, and on the desire to move the "self" parameter somewhere else. http://groups.google.com/groups?th=fd46503cc68700cc http://groups.google.com/groups?th=73aa667cce269fe6 Does anything actually support "digest authentication"? Regardless of whether anything does, M2Crypto has been enhanced with AuthCookie - a potential competitor in the middle ground of authentication. http://groups.google.com/groups?th=e5f58b9e45550ec ======================================================================== 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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