Date: Mon, 26 Feb 2001 15:18:15 -0600 (CST) Newsgroups: comp.lang.python Subject: Dr. Dobb's Python-URL! - weekly Python news and links (Feb 26) From: Oleg Broytmann <phd@phd.russ.ru> To: Dr.Dobb's.Python-URL.distribution@starbase.neosoft.com Jeremy Hylton updates PEP 227 (static scoping) http://groups.yahoo.com/group/python-list/message/124981 and thus starts a hot discussion http://groups.yahoo.com/group/python-list/messagesearch?query=Update%20to%20PEP%20227%20%28static%20scoping%29 Guido van Rossum announces nested scopes in 2.1 and 2.2 optional http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-list/2001-February/030681.html David Mertz announces an oops on gnosis.cx/publish/ and moves to new hosting http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-list/2001-February/030550.html David Mertz: Charming Python: Getting version 2.0 http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/library/l-py20.html?dwzone=linux David Mertz: Functional Programming in Python http://gnosis.cx/publish/programming/charming_python_13.txt Philipp wrapps www.graphviz.org's 'dot' language in Python http://groups.yahoo.com/group/python-list/message/124396 python powered mp3 management http://mpy3.thelocust.org/ Thomas Heller shows how to enter a (possibly dotted) python module name in the Emacs' minibuffer http://groups.yahoo.com/group/python-list/message/124525 gnome-python 1.4.0: Updated to work with the latest GtkHTML http://www.daa.com.au/~james/gnome/ Jerome Alet annonces new version of JAXML XML generator http://groups.yahoo.com/group/python-list/message/124939 Warren Postma announces event module 1.0 for better threading http://groups.yahoo.com/group/python-list/message/124830 Barry Warsaw updates PEP 232, Function Attributes http://groups.yahoo.com/group/python-list/message/124789 Amos Latteier announces Zope Directions Roadmap http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-announce-list/2001-February/000673.html Stephen Figgins: Zope's New Roadmap http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/python/2001/02/22/pythonnews.html Jean-Luc Fontaine creates tclpython that embeds python into tcl http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-list/2001-February/030652.html Lars Marius Garshol wraps James Clark's SP SGML parser http://www.garshol.priv.no/download/software/pysp/ Norbert Klamann creates a working setup.py for DCOracle 1.3.2 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/python-list/message/124940 Marc-Andre Lemburg launches eGenix and announces that Extensions for Python 2.0 http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-announce-list/2001-February/000679.html Computer scientists at Endeavors Technology have successfully developed a highly optimized, open source port of Python to the Palm OS(R) platform to stimulate interest in creating Python-based applications for Palm(TM) handheld computers and other devices that use the Palm operating system. http://sf-web1.businesswire.com/cgi-bin/f_headline.cgi?day0/210540113&ticker= http://www.endeavors.com/pippy/ Chris Gonnerman posts an example code explaining how to extend Python in C/C++ http://groups.yahoo.com/group/python-list/message/125374 Uche Ogbuji announces "The Python Web services developer" column http://groups.yahoo.com/group/python-list/message/125405 Mark Hammond explains how to ensures the thread-lock is released when the function is called (SWIG) http://groups.yahoo.com/group/python-list/message/125473 Sean Reifschneider comtinues to think about CPAN functionality for python http://groups.yahoo.com/group/python-list/message/125510 Zope ---- Brian Lloyd announces SECURITY alert and hotfix release http://lists.zope.org/pipermail/zope/2001-February/084053.html Michel Pelletier announces Zope Book is now in public CVS http://lists.zope.org/pipermail/zope/2001-February/084061.html Hot threads of the week ----------------------- locking files http://groups.google.com/groups?lr=&safe=off&ic=1&th=e046814cf6e52ae3&seekd=917102346 Alternative iterator syntax http://groups.google.com/groups?lr=&safe=off&ic=1&th=f90597b5cb186d16&seekd=917023515 Comparison with Ruby http://groups.google.com/groups?lr=&safe=off&ic=1&th=105b832cf34cd872&seekd=916928222 Rounding Question http://groups.google.com/groups?lr=&safe=off&ic=1&th=d054718b0b4ad260&seekd=916921447 import statement is case sensitive http://groups.google.com/groups?lr=&safe=off&ic=1&th=24e0f1d3ddcb2ac5&seekd=916916940 An alternative approach to bound methods http://groups.google.com/groups?lr=&safe=off&ic=1&th=307b2dd2b5d6bc3f&seekd=916902767 ======================================================================== 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 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 continues Andrew Kuchling's marvelous tradition of summarizing action on the python-dev mailing list twice a month. 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/ Python Consortium emerges as an independent nexus of activity http://www.python.org/consortium Cetus does much of the same http://www.cetus-links.de/oo_python.html Python FAQTS http://python.faqts.com/ 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://groups.google.com/groups?oi=djq&as_ugroup=comp.lang.python&num=100 Previous - (U)se the (R)esource, (L)uke! - messages are listed here: http://purl.org/thecliff/python/url.html 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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