From: "Jason Orendorff" <jason@jorendorff.com> To: Dr.Dobb's.Python-URL.distribution@starbase.neosoft.com Subject: Dr. Dobb's Python-URL! - weekly Python news and links (Mar 4) Date: Mon, 4 Mar 2002 17:03:45 -0600 (CST) QOTW: "What I find most amusing about com and .NET is that they are trying to solve a problem I only had when programming using MS tools." -MaxM http://groups.google.com/groups?th=5e0d677b44e1e91a "I suppose the fact that I get 20 emails in response to this question is a sign, I know you couldn't get 20 positive third party comparisons of VB to Python." -Stefan Kuzminski on Python advocacy http://groups.google.com/groups?th=f1ec289d99f2be87 "It COULD be a feature despite its creepy-crawly, six-legged, hive-dwelling, crumb-eating nature." -Raymond Hettinger on a little-known Python quirk http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=a5v1r1%24aji%241%40bob.news.rcn.net "As Zenin points out, Python uses objects to emulate closures, whereas Lisp uses closures to emulate objects." -Martin v. Löwis http://groups.google.com/groups?th=7ae69320e338064a Martin v. Löwis revives and revises PEP 263. It aims to treat Python code itself as Unicode data, enabling programmers to include Unicode strings in Python programs more naturally. http://groups.google.com/groups?th=ae0e91b136e81f15 http://python.sourceforge.net/peps/pep-0263.html Gerhard Häring shows how to play an MP3 file using pygame. (Five lines of code.) http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=mailman.1015034704.11911.python-list%40python.org http://www.pygame.org/download.shtml Papercut is a multi-threaded news server written in Python. http://pessoal.org/papercut/index.php Decompyle converts Python byte-code back into Python source. http://www.goebel-consult.de/decompyle/ TWAIN is an industry standard API for scanners, digital cameras, and other imaging equipment. A new extension provides TWAIN for Python. http://twainmodule.sourceforge.net/ JPE 2.0 is released. JPE, the Java-Python Extension, allows CPython programs to call Java code - and vice versa. http://jpe.sourceforge.net/ The UN Bot intelligently navigates Quake 2 game worlds. The goal: human-like exploration behavior. (Scriptable in Python, of course.) http://bots.ai-depot.com/UN-Bot.html py2html.py version 0.7 converts Python code to color-coded XHTML. http://www.egenix.com/files/python/SoftwareDescriptions.html#py2html.py http://www.egenix.com/files/python/py2html.py.html PyChecker checks Python programs for common mistakes. A mailing list has been created for PyChecker discussion: http://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/pychecker-list PyBoids - Flocking behavior fun in Python. http://www.dma.org/~tw/pyboids/ ======================================================================== 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.org/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 *Py: the Journal of the Python Language* http://www.pyzine.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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