Date: Wed, 3 Jan 2001 08:51:37 -0600 (CST) Newsgroups: comp.lang.python Subject: Dr. Dobb's Python-URL! - weekly Python news and links (Jan 3) From: Grant Edwards <grante@visi.com> To: Dr.Dobb's.Python-URL.distribution@starbase.neosoft.com Niklas Frykholm announces preliminary work on the consequential problem of practical HTML (and SGML) parsing http://x56.deja.com/[ST_rn=ps]/getdoc.xp?AN=711302528 Alex Martelli makes MediaPlayer comprehensible http://x73.deja.com/[ST_rn=ps]/getdoc.xp?AN=711305977 exemplifies htmllib use http://x66.deja.com/[ST_rn=ps]/getdoc.xp?AN=711130173 comments on use of classes and OOP http://deja.com/=dnc/getdoc.xp?AN=708325609 and announces gmpy 0.8 release for those in need of fast, high-precision arithmetic) http://deja.com/=dnc/getdoc.xp?AN=709390524 Raja S illuminates the history of exceptions pertinent to Python (those playing along at home should notice one follow-up corrects an out-of-place parenthesis) http://x56.deja.com/[ST_rn=ps]/getdoc.xp?AN=707412222 Tim Peters demonstrates how he thinks about regular expressions http://x53.deja.com/[ST_rn=ps]/getdoc.xp?AN=711103603 fgleeson reports on early experience with the Komodo preview http://x65.deja.com/[ST_rn=ps]/getdoc.xp?AN=710978812 Jeff Epler places an 'xreadlines' patch on Sourceforge: xreadlines, inspired by xrange, permits a simple 'for' loop to iterate over the contents of a file "lazily", without reading the entire file at once. http://deja.com/=dnc/getdoc.xp?AN=706611199 Amy Katherine announces the Ninth International Python Conference. http://deja.com/=dnc/getdoc.xp?AN=707166306 Per Kraulis announces crng 1.1: Random-number generator extension types (minor upgrade) http://deja.com/=dnc/getdoc.xp?AN=707664094 Dave Cole announces Sybase module 0.11 (Sam Rushing release) released http://deja.com/=dnc/getdoc.xp?AN=707968946 Bob Alexander starts an extensive thread on ideas for Python 2.1 [though it's too late for 2.1, maybe for 2.2? -- ed] http://deja.com/=dnc/getdoc.xp?AN=708072070 Final Call For Papers 2nd International Conference on eXtreme Programming and Flexible Processes in Software Engineering - XP2001. http://deja.com/=dnc/getdoc.xp?AN=708580378 Russell Turpin posts ideas about caching name lookups. http://deja.com/=dnc/getdoc.xp?AN=708902425 Pointers on sniffing HTTP traffic using proxies http://deja.com/=dnc/getdoc.xp?AN=710137006 Jerry Spicklemire responds to a question about Python vs. PHP by noting several packages that "will allow you to do "PHP/ASP-ish" things with Python". http://deja.com/=dnc/getdoc.xp?AN=709032569 and "echuck" provides a pointer to webware: another PHP-like package http://deja.com/=dnc/getdoc.xp?AN=709162756 Raymond Hettinger starts another enhancement discussions with a new year's wish-list for Python http://deja.com/=dnc/getdoc.xp?AN=709868180 ======================================================================== 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 PythonWare complements the digest you're reading with the daily python url http://www.pythonware.com/daily comp.lang.python.announce announces new Python software. 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