Date: Mon, 5 Mar 2001 06:50:54 -0600 (CST) Newsgroups: comp.lang.python Subject: Dr. Dobb's Python-URL! - weekly Python news and links (Mar 5) From: Oleg Broytmann <phd@phd.russ.ru> To: Dr.Dobb's.Python-URL.distribution@starbase.neosoft.com Guido van Rossum releases Python 1.6.1 to fix GPL incompatibility http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-announce-list/2001-February/000682.html On the Python2 side: Python 2.1b1 released http://groups.yahoo.com/group/python-list/message/126320 New in this release: Nested Scopes are now optional, new tool pydoc, full support for MacOS X, Cygwin, and RISCOS. Tim Peters makes PEP 236: "Back to the __future__" and thus starts hot discussions, proposals, counter-proposals and counter-counter-proposals http://groups.yahoo.com/group/python-list/messagesearch?query=PEP%20236%3A%20%20Back%20to%20the%20__future__ http://groups.yahoo.com/group/python-list/messagesearch?query=counter-proposal%20for%20PEP%20236 Michael Hudson publishes python-dev summary for 2001-02-15 - 2001-03-01 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/python-list/message/126217 Cameron Laird and Kathryn Soraiz: REGULAR EXPRESSIONS - Pulling different threads http://www.sunworld.com/unixinsideronline/swol-02-2001/swol-0216-regex.html A Python role playing game! Play your favorite Python community member! While said member watches! Travel through time! Save the planet! Martijn Faassen proposes Python RPG (joke) http://groups.yahoo.com/group/python-list/message/125822 Read March instead of January, of course Oleg Broytmann takes a SpamCop perl script and rewrites it to Python; fighting spam has never been easier! http://groups.yahoo.com/group/python-list/message/125520 http://spamcop.net/fom-serve/cache/166.html GNU Solfege is an eartraining program for X written in Python, using the GTK+ and GNOME libraries http://www.solfege.org/ Charming Python - Updating your Python reading list David Mertz: Reviewing eight of the best known Python books http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/library/l-cp12.html?dwzone=linux David also reveals a code for full-text indexing and searching http://groups.yahoo.com/group/python-list/message/126371 Peter Norvig: Extreme Rapid Development http://www.sdmagazine.com/articles/2001/0103/0103e/0103e.htm Tom Schwaller: Scheduling with Python and Webware http://www.python.de/docs/QuickStart.html A.M. Kuchling: Quotation Exchange Language, or QEL, is an XML language for exchanging collections of quotations http://www.amk.ca/qel/ http://xml.coverpages.org/ni2001-03-03-a.html Python Helps Disney Write a New Script http://python.oreilly.com/news/disney_0201.html Chris Gonnerman posts C source to a shadow module which contains the functions lckpwdf() and ulckpwdf() http://groups.yahoo.com/group/python-list/message/125999 Python must matter if it can be used with Ada, no? pyAda enables programmers to write Python extensions in Ada 95 or extend Ada 95 programs with a Python interpreter http://groups.yahoo.com/group/python-list/message/125989 http://pyada.sourceforge.net/ Federico Di Gregorio, the same man who brought to us PoPy PostgreSQL driver, writes new Postgres driver and Zope Database Adapter http://initd.org/ PythonJournal is alive! It becomes interactive! http://groups.yahoo.com/group/python-list/message/126159 Not all people are happy, though http://groups.yahoo.com/group/python-list/message/126180 W3C: Python modules for RDF Tim Berners-Lee: By the way... Python is cool! http://www.w3.org/2000/10/swap/ Kirby Urner: Oregon curriculum network. Hitting two targets: OO + group theory (pedagogy). Python as intro language http://groups.yahoo.com/group/python-list/message/126344 Barry Warsaw announces Mailman 2.0.2 - important privacy patch http://groups.yahoo.com/group/python-list/message/126373 Beware the southern pythons! (joke) http://groups.yahoo.com/group/python-list/message/125616 Alex Martelli: I come to praise .join, not to bury it http://groups.yahoo.com/group/python-list/message/126436 Zope: Paul Tchistopolskii makes Zope Prouct API easy with Zope Beans http://lists.zope.org/pipermail/zope/2001-March/084640.html http://www.pault.com/zope_beans.html Hot threads of the week: CPAN functionality for python http://groups.yahoo.com/group/python-list/messagesearch?query=CPAN%20functionality%20for%20python Combinations of n Lists http://groups.google.com/groups?lr=&group=comp.lang.python&safe=off&ic=1&th=275c44135cba024f&seekd=920137360 Collection interfaces http://groups.google.com/groups?num=25&lr=&group=comp.lang.python&safe=off&th=34d9ba9d0f261c1a&ic=1&seekd=920732844 ======================================================================== 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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