From: Paul Prescod <paulp@ActiveState.com> To: Dr.Dobb's.Python-URL.distribution@starbase.neosoft.com Subject: Dr. Dobb's Python-URL! - weekly Python news and links (May 21) Date: Mon, 21 May 2001 10:27:32 -0500 (CDT) There are many ways to walk around tree structures in Python. A recent thread touches on iterators, generators, file systems and problems with os.path.walk: http://groups.google.com/groups?ic=1&th=1eeee266df16f55d,10 Many posts recently have compared Python with Lisp. With tongue firmly in cheek, William Annis announces PyLisp as the perfect merger: http://groups.google.com/groups?ic=1&selm=jty9rxmfwm.fsf%40wazor.biostat.wisc.edu Zope may not officially be supported on Python 2.1 yet but early experimenters have found that Zope and Python 2.1 are mostly compatible: http://groups.google.com/groups?ic=1&th=609ac7eb0a7dc7be Python is fairly stable but what would happen to your Python application if an asteroid hit the earth? Python Enhancement Proposal 9001 addresses this problem: http://groups.google.com/groups?q=Asteroid+Impact+Resistance+Python The Python 2.0 quick reference has been updated and a 2.1 version is forthcoming: http://www.brunningonline.net/simon/python/quick-ref2_0.html PySgrep allows powerful searching in structured text files such as XML, SGML and HTML documents: http://groups.google.com/groups?q=PySgrep comp.lang.python may be the only place on Usenet where you can have a civil discussion of the relative merits of operating systems. Which is best for Python hacking? http://groups.google.com/groups?ic=1&th=c899098cda2930ea,28 Decimal.py is a module implementing the decimal arithmetic ANSI standard X3.274-1996. As they say, Decimal math is where the money is... http://groups.google.com/groups?q=Decimal.py Chess.py isn't a Python program that plays chess. Rather it is a program that tells you whether your opponent is *cheating* at chess. http://www.alcyone.com/pyos/chess/ Running Python code on the client side of a web browser will not become really easy until every browser and OS ships with Python. Still, a recent thread highlights some techniques for client-side Python. http://groups.google.com/groups?ic=1&th=657a7d5601163db3,7 PyVTK is a new module that allows for manipulating Visualization Toolkit files in Python: http://cens.ioc.ee/projects/pyvtk/ Talk about portability. On the one hand, Python runs on palm computers. On the other, it also runs on AS/400's! http://home.no.net/pgummeda/ ======================================================================== 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.