From: "Cameron Laird" <claird@neosoft.com> To: Dr.Dobb's.Python-URL.distribution@starbase.neosoft.com Subject: Dr. Dobb's Python-URL! - weekly Python news and links (May 7) Date: Mon, 7 May 2001 10:38:00 -0500 (CDT) Frederic Giacometti announces JPE as a Java-Python hybrid with advantages in certain situations over Jython http://sourceforge.net/projects/jpe http://groups.google.com/groups?ic=1&th=ec94c7f54b7ebc14 Ka-Ping Yee and Guido publish the long-awaited iterator PEP http://python.sourceforge.net/peps/pep-0234.html COM exposes fixed-point arithmetic as currency values. Python's core has no good correspondence--yet. While waiting for change, it's still possible to persuade Python to make the right calculations http://groups.google.com/groups?ic=1&th=989644d1a6bc8be5 Fredrik Lundh offers a convenient definition for rotating graphical text with PIL http://mail.python.org/pipermail/image-sig/2001-May/001452.html Paul Prescod, Carlos Ribeiro, Michael Hudson, and timbot explain the sense of xrange http://groups.google.com/groups?ic=1&th=282bcfd9c7c666bc 2.1 is available for MacOS http://www.cwi.nl/~jack/macpython.html Stephen Figgins mentions Redfoot and 4RDF as Python-based RDF utilities http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/python/2001/05/02/pythonnews.html ======================================================================== 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 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.* 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. [http://www.egroups.com/list/python-url-leads/ is hibernating. Just e-mail us ideas directly.] To receive a new issue of this posting in e-mail each Monday morning, ask <claird@neosoft.com> to subscribe. Mention "Python-URL!". -- The Python-URL! Team-- Dr. Dobb's Journal (http://www.ddj.com) is pleased to participate in and sponsor the "Python-URL!" project.