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Date: Mon, 6 Mar 2000 01:45:15 -0600 (CST)
Subject: Dr. Dobb's Python-URL! - weekly Python news and links (Mar 6)
From: "Fredrik Lundh" <effbot@telia.com>
IMPORTANT: a bogus "Python-URL!" (roughly, one from four weeks ago)
went out a few hours ago. Cameron Laird apologizes for this error
and the confusion it has caused. Now, back to our regularly-scheduled
broadcast ...
Things to read:
Paul Prescod: Why I Promote Python
http://www.oreilly.com/news/prescod_0300.html
Pete Beckman and Greg Wilson: Open Source Meets Big Iron
http://software-carpentry.codesourcery.com/extern/big-iron.html
Peter Norvig: Python for Lisp Programmers
http://www.norvig.com/python-lisp.html
Dennis Hamilton: Python for Non-Programmers
http://www.deja.com/=dnc/getdoc.xp?AN=591803780
Things to help out with:
Nathan Wallace is building a Python knowledge base:
http://python.faqts.com
http://www.deja.com/=dnc/getdoc.xp?AN=591892368
Fred Drake: How to best help out with the Python
documentation!
http://www.deja.com/=dnc/getdoc.xp?AN=591003673
Things to prepare for:
Guido van Rossum: Multi-argument append is illegal,
and will not be supported in 1.6:
http://www.deja.com/=dnc/getdoc.xp?AN=590886581
To be on the safe side, make sure you run Tim Peters'
checkappend.py utility on your sources as soon as
possible (It'll find most (but not all) uses of the
old syntax:
http://www.deja.com/=dnc/getdoc.xp?AN=591243549
And while you're at it, why not run Moshe Zadka's
selfnanny.py on your code as well:
http://www.deja.com/=dnc/getdoc.xp?AN=593057376
Other stuff from the newsgroup:
Greg Wilson looks for an XML DTD for Python Source.
Paul Prescod is rather sceptical:
http://www.deja.com/=dnc/viewthread.xp?AN=591761643
http://www.deja.com/=dnc/getdoc.xp?AN=592820382
Roger Klaveness: How to run Zope on Mac OS X
http://www.deja.com/=dnc/getdoc.xp?AN=593038130
David Fisher: Accessing I/O ports on Windows 95
http://www.deja.com/=dnc/getdoc.xp?AN=592598772
Darrell Gallion: How to get a notification event when
a directory is modified (Windows only)
http://www.deja.com/=dnc/getdoc.xp?AN=591535488
David Ullrich: How to get Windows to recognize Python scripts
(if the installer didn't do that for you)
http://www.deja.com/=dnc/getdoc.xp?AN=590948663
Oleg Broytmann: How to send a binary file attachment
http://www.deja.com/=dnc/getdoc.xp?AN=590791917
Tim Ottinger and Fredrik Lundh: When to compile regular expressions?
http://www.deja.com/=dnc/getdoc.xp?AN=590851115
Various Pythoneers: What Python books are suitable for beginners?
http://www.deja.com/=dnc/viewthread.xp?AN=590577759
Guido van Rossum: New mailing list for IDLE development
http://www.deja.com/=dnc/getdoc.xp?AN=591322587
Michal Wallace: Would open source projects move faster if people
use more Python?
http://www.deja.com/=dnc/getdoc.xp?AN=590732971
Fredrik Lundh: repr vs. str (according to the eff-bot)
http://www.deja.com/=dnc/getdoc.xp?AN=590939567
Newsgroup logistics:
All time high on comp.lang.python: 3977 posts in February
http://starship.python.net/crew/just/FindMailStats/
David Fisher: Advanced newsgroup statistics!
http://www.deja.com/=dnc/getdoc.xp?AN=592196189
Is 1000 posts per week too much to handle? Some Pythoneers
argue for a newsgroup split (unfortunately, the thread itself
has also split):
http://www.deja.com/=dnc/dnquery.xp?ST=PS&QRY=&defaultOp=AND&DBS=1&format=threaded&showsort=score&maxhits=25&LNG=ALL&subjects=splitting+comp.lang.python+&groups=comp.lang.python
On the other hand, maybe zero posts per week is too little?
http://www.deja.com/=dnc/viewthread.xp?AN=592696098
Finally, some interesting software announcements:
Constantinos Kotsokalis: PyAsync: An Asynchronous TCP Server Module
http://www.deja.com/=dnc/getdoc.xp?AN=591283800
Helmut Michels: DISLIN 7.3 (a data plotting library for Python)
http://www.deja.com/=dnc/getdoc.xp?AN=592614308
Sean McGrath: Pyxie: An Open Source XML Processing Library for Python
http://xml.com/pub/coverpage/newspage.html#ni2000-02-28-a
Will Ware: Microthreads package for Stackless Python
http://www.deja.com/=dnc/getdoc.xp?AN=591530057
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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
eff-bot's complements this digest with his daily python url
http://hem.passagen.se/eff/url.htm
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
The Vaults of Parnassus ambitiously collects Python resources
http://www.vex.net/~x/parnassus/
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
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