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From: Paul Boddie <paul@boddie.net>
To: Dr.Dobb's.Python-URL.distribution@starbase.neosoft.com
Subject: Dr. Dobb's Python-URL! - weekly Python news and links (Jan 28)
Date: Mon, 28 Jan 2002 19:12:23 -0600 (CST)
QOTW: "Is this thread still going on? Guess I'll have to wait for Dr.
Dobb's Python-URL to get a short explanation what this all is about ;-)"
Gerhard Hering
"The reason that perl's RE is so fast, is that someone has spent a lot
of time working on all the special cases." Jeffrey Hobbs
"Anyway, the correlation between being a 'valid' 822 address and
whether mail sent to that address will end up anywhere useful is
probably small enough that it's not worth the effort." Grant Edwards
Last week, there was mention of the appearance of the Visual Python
.Net plug-in on the Microsoft site. See for yourself at
http://msdn.microsoft.com/vstudio/partners/language/default.asp
The Python 10 Conference gives attention to Python persistence
frameworks.
http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=mailman.1012169283.21421.clpa-moderators%40python.org
ZODB (Zope Object Database) breaks out of Zope in the form of
StandaloneZODB 1.0.
http://groups.google.com/groups?th=1d5fcd3ae3cb68db
MkSQL wraps an SQL front end around the MetaKit embedded database
system.
http://www.mcmillan-inc.com/mksqlintro.html
http://www.vex.net/parnassus/apyllo.py?i=511007929
The "McMillan" Installer (release 5.1) is announced.
http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=mailman.1012169285.21430.clpa-moderators%40python.org
PythonCard keeps its project momentum high with the 0.6.3 release.
http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=mailman.1012169284.21423.clpa-moderators%40python.org
Jython looks and acts a lot like the "original" CPython, but which
Java and/or Python IDEs support it?
http://groups.google.com/groups?th=82ca05d39ff68ad2
Python extension modules meet Enterprise JavaBean descriptors? A
proposal aims to make extensions easier to define.
http://groups.google.com/groups?th=55dfa546878b74a7
SCXX provides a wrapper around Python's internals.
http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=mailman.1012169286.21431.clpa-moderators%40python.org
Back in Python itself, how can one find out more about classes,
objects and methods programmatically?
http://groups.google.com/groups?th=983e2c5c24be7ff9
Pyro 2.4 provides a remote object mechanism for Python.
http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=mailman.1011952383.1449.clpa-moderators%40python.org
cvssh secures remote CVS access in an easier fashion than other
approaches.
http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=mailman.1011771333.9940.python-list%40python.org
Jabberpy 0.3 provides Jabber instant messaging capabilities for Python.
http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=mailman.1011742834.23101.python-list%40python.org
ftputil 1.0 provides a nicer interface to FTP services than the
standard ftplib module.
http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=mailman.1011654692.30716.clpa-moderators%40python.org
Tkinter's talents are turned to traffic by the game PyTraffic.
http://www.vex.net/parnassus/apyllo.py?i=582358053
http://alpha.luc.ac.be/Research/Algebra/Members/pytraffic
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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 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
Mygale is a news-gathering webcrawler that specializes in (new)
World-Wide Web articles related to Python.
http://www.awaretek.com/nowak/mygale.html
While cosmetically similar, Mygale and the Daily Python-URL
are utterly different in their technologies and generally in
their results.
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 continued Andrew Kuchling's marvelous tradition
of summarizing action on the python-dev mailing list once every
other week, into July 2001. Any volunteers to re-start this
valuable series?
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.org/oo_python.html
Python FAQTS
http://python.faqts.com/
The old Python "To-Do List" now lives principally in a
SourceForge reincarnation.
http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?atid=355470&group_id=5470&func=browse
http://python.sourceforge.net/peps/pep-0042.html
*Py: the Journal of the Python Language*
http://www.pyzine.com
Links2Go is a new semi-automated link collection; it's impressive
what AI can generate
http://www.links2go.com/search?search=python
Tenth International Python Conference
http://www.python10.org
Archive probing tricks of the trade:
http://groups.google.com/groups?oi=djq&as_ugroup=comp.lang.python&num=100
http://groups.google.com/groups?meta=site%3Dgroups%26group%3Dcomp.lang.python.*
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