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From: Mike Orr <mso@oz.net>
Subject: README: Python-URL! - the weekly guide to Python resources (Feb 1)
Date: 1 Feb 1999 12:49:42 -0600
In this edition, news articles are referenced by USENET Message-ID
rather than the Dejanews article number. This is an experimental change
to make the Python-URL information more portable. Article numbers are
Dejanews-specific, but Message-IDs are potentially portable to
non-Dejanews archives.
The change will affect readers of the News and Email versions of
Python-URL (not the Web version). URLs with a Message-ID are too wide
to fit on one line on the screen. This will result in long lines in the
message, or in the URL being split onto two lines.
**ANY URL STARTING WITH "http://search.dejanews.com/msgid.xp?MID=",
ENDS IN "%3e"**. You may need to join two lines to make a valid URL.
Please send feedback to Cameron Laird <claird@neosoft.com> if you have
any problems with the new URLs or find them inconvenient. (Or if you
have any other comments regarding Python-URL.)
For the technically curious, an explanation of Message-IDs
appears below, after the regular Python-URL news.
ILU 2.0alpha14. Inter-Language Unification, a library
which allows programs written in one language to call
functions written in another.
http://search.dejanews.com/msgid.xp?MID=%3cmt2.0-17583-917408208%40news.informatik.uni-bonn.de%3e
ftp://ftp.parc.xerox.com/pub/ilu/ilu.html
DCOracle 1.1.0. DBI-compliant extension module for Oracle.
Open-source.
http://search.dejanews.com/msgid.xp?MID=%3cmt2.0-17583-917408411%40news.informatik.uni-bonn.de%3e
http://www.zope.org/Download/DCOracle/
O'Reilley Python Conference, August 21-24, 1999 in Monterey,
California. Deadline for paper submission abstracts is
February 15th. This is not the International Python Conference
organized by the PSA.
http://search.dejanews.com/msgid.xp?MID=%3cmt2.0-24964-917614066%40news.informatik.uni-bonn.de%3e
http://conferences.oreilly.com/news/python_announce.html
Remote Microscope 1.0alpha2. Controls an optical microscope
of the Internet using a Java applet, as demonstrated at the
recent Python conference.
http://search.dejanews.com/msgid.xp?MID=%3cmt2.0-24964-917614203%40news.informatik.uni-bonn.de%3e
http://www.mems-exchange.org/software/microscope/
Wish Python had standard APIs for drawing and printing?
Andrew Robinson <andy@robanal.demon.co.uk> is trying to start
a new SIG about this.
http://search.dejanews.com/msgid.xp?MID=%3c36af78b3.31934204%40news.demon.co.uk%3e
Getting PyTix 1.12 to work on Python 1.5. The Tk Interface
Extension, with over 40 professional-looking mega-widgets.
http://www.dejanews.com/thread/%3c36B1FD6F.EEDEFDF5@fc.hp.com%3e%231/1
A summary of the Tkinter widget alternatives available under Python is at
http://www.python.org/topics/tkinter/widgets.html
Pythondoc, a tool for generating documentation from python
source code. (Unfinished as of Oct 1998, but has some features
Gendoc doesn't.)
http://starship.skyport.net/crew/danilo/pythondoc/
Also see the archives of the Doc-SIG
http://www.python.org/sigs/doc-sig/
Guido's essays on various Python topics
http://www.python.org/doc/essays/
The ongoing debate on reference counting vs garbage collection
http://search.dejanews.com/msgid.xp?MID=%3c36B204D8.2257E479%40appliedbiometrics.com%3e
http://search.dejanews.com/msgid.xp?MID=%3c000001be4c10%24c9bdcf00%24ed9e2299%40tim%3e
Humor on why new keywords are bad, plus vegas-betting on
new features in Python2.
http://search.dejanews.com/msgid.xp?MID=%3c000a01be49c6%24a52a07e0%24b89e2299%40tim%3e
MESSAGE-IDs:
A Message-ID looks like this:
"<mt2.0-17583-917408208@news.informatik.uni-bonn.de>". It appears in
the Message-ID: field in the article's headers. It is generated by your
news posting software, and uniquely identifies the article across all
USENET.
To convert a Message-ID to a URL, run it through urllib.quote() and
then add the prefiwww.dejanews.com/msgid.xp?MID=".
midquote.py is an interactive program which does this:
http://mso.oz.net/python/midquote.py
Dejanews will display a thread if you prefix
"http://www.dejanews.com/thread/" to the quoted Message-ID or article
number. The article can be any part of the thread, not just the first.
Everything you want is probably one or two clicks away in these pages:
Python.org's Python Language Website is the center of Pythonia
http://www.python.org
Much of Python's real work takes place on Special-Interest Group
mailing lists http://www.python.org/sigs/
Python Consortium emerges as an independent nexus of activity
http://www.python.org/consortium
Python To-Do List anticipates some of Python's future direction
http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/todo.py
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
Archive probing trick of the trade:
http://www.dejanews.com/dnquery.xp?QRY=&DBS=2&ST=PS&defaultOp=AND&LNG=ALL&format=threaded&showsort=date&maxhits=100&groups=comp.lang.python
Previous - (U)se the (R)esource, (L)uke! - messages are listed here:
http://purl.org/thecliff/python/url.html
or
http://www.dejanews.com/dnquery.xp?QRY=~g%20comp.lang.python%20Python-URL%21
Suggestions/corrections for next week's posting are always welcome.
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