From: "Dean Goodmanson" <ponderor@lycos.com> To: Dr.Dobb's.Python-URL.distribution@starbase.neosoft.com Subject: Dr. Dobb's Python-URL! - weekly Python news and links (Mar 18) Date: Mon, 18 Mar 2002 08:21:15 -0600 (CST) QOTW: [Cross Platform Environment Tips] "I'd really recommend that you vary quite frequently your tune selection (there's some good Internet radio stations if your mp3 collection isn't large enough). There's nothing worse than ruining a great CD because hearing it reminds you of some awful project you worked on." - Dave Brueck http://groups.google.com/groups?start=175&hl=en&ie=ISO-8859-1&oe=ISO-8859-1&group=comp.lang.python&selm=mailman.1015952421.10168.python-list%40python.org "I'm pretty sure it's because the hobbits were all wiped out after Sauron rose again and conquered Middle Earth, imposing the Unified Mordorian Calendar system across much of the planet until the changes made by Pope Gregory in 1582." - Peter Hansen PEP 279 updates Enhanced Generators. http://groups.google.com/groups?start=175&hl=en&ie=ISO-8859-1&oe=ISO-8859-1&group=comp.lang.python&selm=mailman.1015961402.6720.clpa-moderators%40python.org Now version 1.6 http://python.sourceforge.net/peps/pep-0279.html NormalDate 1.2 Released! Historical Calendar Discussion Ensues. http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&ie=ISO-8859-1&oe=ISO-8859-1&threadm=Xns91D08815184B2svenaxelssonbokochwe%40212.37.1.234&prev=/groups%3Fnum%3D25%26hl%3Den%26ie%3DISO-8859-1%26oe%3DISO-8859-1%26group%3Dcomp.lang.python%26start%3D150 python 2.2 bug encounter http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&ie=ISO-8859-1&oe=ISO-8859-1&frame=right&th=bd7e08291b334261&seekm=3C8E54C4.7030506%40livinglogic.de#link1 print to stream to multiple objects: http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&ie=ISO-8859-1&oe=ISO-8859-1&threadm=mailman.1015962446.10330.python-list%40python.org&prev=/groups%3Fnum%3D25%26hl%3Den%26ie%3DISO-8859-1%26oe%3DISO-8859-1%26group%3Dcomp.lang.python%26start%3D175 Text Indexing and compression discussion http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&ie=ISO-8859-1&oe=ISO-8859-1&threadm=mailman.1015976905.21484.python-list%40python.org&prev=/groups%3Fnum%3D25%26hl%3Den%26ie%3DISO-8859-1%26oe%3DISO-8859-1%26group%3Dcomp.lang.python%26start%3D150 A thread on an English thesaurus and dictionary for python is particularly cool. http://groups.google.com/groups?th=3c477063910da12e Vinay Sajip proposes a standard logging module for Python. http://www.red-dove.com/python_logging.html http://python.sourceforge.net/peps/pep-0282.html The secret labs releases Python Imaging Library, v1.1.3. "Version 1.1.3 adds distutils build scripts, improved resampling, screen grabbing support (windows only), and more." http://www.pythonware.com/products/pil/ Lars Gustäbel's tarfile module provides a zipfile-like interface for reading and writing TAR files. http://www.gustaebel.de/lars/tarfile/ David Mertz posts an early draft of his book in progress, <i>Text Processing in Python</i>. http://gnosis.cx/TPiP/ PythonCard 0.6.4 "includes walkthroughs to get you started with PythonCard, an improved layout editor..., and new samples that use SOAP and XML-RPC (Blogger API)." http://pythoncard.sourceforge.net/ Mike C. Fletcher calculates sunrise and sunset times. http://members.rogers.com/mcfletch/programming/sunriseset.py Yet another conversation on Embedding Python in Server Side Web Development, this one someone without early mention of Zope *or* the recent ASP articles. http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&ie=ISO-8859-1&oe=ISO-8859-1&threadm=23891c90.0203130444.3d8a1a3b%40posting.google.com&prev=/groups%3Fnum%3D25%26hl%3Den%26ie%3DISO-8859-1%26oe%3DISO-8859-1%26group%3Dcomp.lang.python%26start%3D150 Grant Edwards' question on packaging ends with an inspiring testimonial. http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&ie=ISO-8859-1&oe=ISO-8859-1&frame=right&th=16b685ee49ea98f2&seekm=slrna8qr56.16e.grante%40tuxtop.visi.com#link19 ======================================================================== 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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