Date: Mon, 26 Mar 2001 09:53:45 -0600 (CST) Newsgroups: comp.lang.python Subject: Dr. Dobb's Python-URL! - weekly Python news and links (Mar 26) From: Oleg Broytmann <phd@phd.russ.ru> To: Dr.Dobb's.Python-URL.distribution@starbase.neosoft.com Guido van Rossum announces Python 2.1b2 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/python-announce-list/message/1104 On the heels of the announcement Sean Reifschneider announces Python 2.1b2 SRPM http://groups.yahoo.com/group/python-announce-list/message/1105 Fred Drake updates documentation for the second beta release of Python 2.1 http://python.sourceforge.net/devel-docs/ Andrew Kuchling reminds there are Python HOWTO Documents http://py-howto.sourceforge.net/ It was a week of PEPs. Barry Warsaw updates PEP 1, PEP Purpose and Guidelines http://groups.yahoo.com/group/python-list/message/128991 Andrew Kuchling writes PEP 241: Metadata for Python Software Packages http://groups.yahoo.com/group/python-announce-list/message/1099 Clark Evans writes a new PEP for Query Protocol Interface; the discussion is deep http://groups.google.com/groups?lr=&group=comp.lang.python&safe=off&ic=1&th=41a1861d6f82a50d&seekd=911967025 http://groups.google.com/groups?lr=&group=comp.lang.python&safe=off&ic=1&th=67d8c4d642a4b0b&seekd=911967026 He applies for a PEP number http://groups.yahoo.com/group/python-list/message/129126 Michel Pelletier reminds about PEP 245: Python interfaces http://groups.yahoo.com/group/python-list/message/129327 Clark Evans comments http://groups.yahoo.com/group/python-list/message/129331 Paul Dubois writes PEP 242: Numeric Kinds http://groups.yahoo.com/group/python-list/message/128862 Sean Reifschneider makes PEP243: Module Repository Upload Mechanism http://groups.yahoo.com/group/python-list/message/129570 and Distutils upload patch http://groups.yahoo.com/group/python-list/message/129671 Moshe Zadka announces new list for discussion of Python's Numeric Model http://groups.yahoo.com/group/python-list/message/128911 John Shipman reveals new Tkinter and PIL documentation http://groups.yahoo.com/group/python-list/message/129319 84 pages in Postsvript or PDF format Object inspectors just like Smalltalk! Visually inspect objects as you code. Written using tkinter; interfaces nicely into IDLE http://www.smalltalksource.org/anth/python/inspector.zip Thinking Outside the Box http://washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A23937-2001Mar18.html The government should give you copyright. But in exchange, you owe me a buck every time your software crashes. (Not related to Python, just a good reading) TuxBot Programming with Python http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/python/2001/03/21/pythonnews.html Bruce Edge shows how to preserve history between interactive sessions (using readline, of course) http://groups.yahoo.com/group/python-list/message/128961 Doug Fort publishes another cookie module http://groups.yahoo.com/group/python-list/message/129121 Building Zope and Python on Mac OS X http://www.zope.org/Members/jshell/ZopeOnOSX Zope: Zope 2.3.1 beta 3 released http://lists.zope.org/pipermail/zope-announce/2001-March/000393.html An Interview with Paul Everitt and Ken Manheimer of Digital Creations http://oss4lib.org/readings/interview-everitt-manheimer-2001-03.php A Zope Spreadsheet Generator: Perl, Python, And DTML Working Together http://www.byte.com/column/BYT20010314S0002 Chris Withers finally releases Squishdot 1.0.0 http://lists.zope.org/pipermail/zope/2001-March/086183.html Hot threads of the week: New PEP: The directive statement http://groups.google.com/groups?lr=&group=comp.lang.python&safe=off&ic=1&th=b137a4ad27f7a6f9&seekd=911921785 Static methods http://groups.google.com/groups?lr=&group=comp.lang.python.*&safe=off&ic=1&th=162da83d63248a97&seekd=910508206 ======================================================================== 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 once every other week. 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/ The Python Software Foundation has replaced the Python Consortium as an independent nexus of activity http://www.python.org/psf/ 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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