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 (Apr 15) Date: Mon, 15 Apr 2002 19:08:49 -0500 (CDT) QOTW: "Fortunately, the very act of using Python grants you super intelligence. Unfortunately it tends to erode unless you update frequently." -Joshua Macey http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-list/2002-April/097612.html "Pyrex isn't designed to speed up Python code, but to bridge the gap between Python and non-Python." - Greg Ewing, RE: ANN: Pyrex - a language for writing Python extension modules http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-list/2002-April/097636.html "There's no such thing as inexpensive patent litigation." -Alan Sutin, head of IT and e-commerce practice for U.S. office of Greenberg Traurig LLP Help with Python advocacy and marketing http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-list/2002-April/097629.html Pymacs: an emacs-like editor which is scriptable with python. http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-list/2002-April/097592.html vi & vim Tab management tips http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-list/2002-April/097821.html Google Web API's with Python, Thanks Mark Pilgrim & Simon Willison http://diveintomark.org/archives/2002/04/11.html Easter Eggshells: import-stuff-coffee-this-except-t-shirt-ni-jerk-xyzzy-syzygy-Lulu-started-it-ly ours http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-list/2002-April/097610.html ======================================================================== 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 The online Python Journal is posted at pythonjournal.cognizor.com. editor@pythonjournal.com and editor@pythonjournal.cognizor.com welcome submission of material that helps people's understanding of Python use, and offer Web presentation of your work. *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. [http://www.egroups.com/list/python-url-leads/ is hibernating. Just e-mail us ideas directly.] To receive a new issue of this posting in e-mail each Monday morning, ask <claird@neosoft.com> to subscribe. Mention "Python-URL!". -- The Python-URL! Team-- Dr. Dobb's Journal (http://www.ddj.com) is pleased to participate in and sponsor the "Python-URL!" project.