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From: "Emile van Sebille" <emile@fcfw.fenx.com>
To: Dr.Dobb's.Python-URL.distribution@starbase.neosoft.com
Subject: Dr. Dobb's Python-URL! - weekly Python news and links (Jul 3)
Date: Tue, 3 Jul 2001 17:22:34 -0500 (CDT)
Pythonic Quote of the Week...
Quite granted that nobody is forced to use a feature. But when
a language becomes too featureful, people start programming in
the subdialect they like best, later creating difficulties to
other wanting to read their programs, who might like other parts
better.
One of the reason behind Python legibility success, is that
there is almost only one way to do one thing (to contrast with
Perl, say). We are progressively sliding away of this virtue.
The danger is real.
François Pinard
http://groups.google.com/groups?ic=1&q=msgid:mailman.993966362.10675.python-list@python.org
Bernhard Rieter wonders about second system syndrome resulting from
the syntactic additions to recent Python releases. The discussion
weaves in and out of topics, reviewing how things get done, who does
what, and what's needed next. It turns out there's no magic here:
people work and volunteer in their areas of interest. Guido tells us
we should all do what we do best: the core PythonLabs team should
work on the language, and the community the Libraries. Elsewhere
it's noted that PythonLabs needs to support library modules accepted
to the core distribution, sometimes making the core team reluctant to
accept modules not within their areas of expertise. It appears the
next step is to work on PEP-0002 so guidelines can be worked out as
to which modules will be in the core, and which should be in third
party repositories such as the Vaults or ActiveState's planned
repository. See the complete thread starting at
http://groups.google.com/groups?th=b4a14dbfb3560d93,64&ic=1
... Tim Peters disagrees with Bernhard's particulars, but warns that
some PEPs may be pointing that way
http://groups.google.com/groups?ic=1&q=msgid:mailman.993788804.16625.python-list@python.org
... while also saying the rate of change will slow down, as the backlog
dwindles.
http://groups.google.com/groups?ic=1&q=msgid:mailman.993880666.24740.python-list@python.org
Early registration for the O'Reilly Open Source Convention Ends
Today. The convention runs July 23-27, 2001 in San Diego, CA. Many
Python people are scheduled, including David Ascher, David Beazley,
Mark Hammond and Guido van Rossum. Check out the Python session
information at
http://conferences.oreillynet.com/cs/os2001/pub/w/os2001/sessions_python.html
... the Bird of a Feather Sessions will feature Wesley Chun and Paul Prescod
http://conferences.oreillynet.com/cs/os2001/pub/w/os2001/bofs.html
... tutorials will be conducted by Aaron Watters, Aahz, Eric Jones and Wesley Chun.
http://conferences.oreillynet.com/cs/os2001/pub/10/python_tutorials.html
... and many additional Python related topics covered
http://conferences.oreillynet.com/cs/os2001/pub/w/os2001/speakers.html
Richard Snow calls for testers and developers to help advance his
school library system. See the project home page or his posting for
more information.
http://richardsnow.bizland.com/opendev/id5.html
http://groups.google.com/groups?ic=1&q=msgid:3B3601BE.3C84E49A@earthlink.net
Martijn Faasen answers the question "What's the concept/logic behind
object-orientation?" in a succinct posting.
http://groups.google.com/groups?ic=1&q=msgid:9h4rto$fmc$1@newshost.accu.uu.nl
Create screen savers for windows using Python! Chris Liechti
releases a win32 screen saver that includes embedded python and shows
how you can write your own version of flying toasters. I did a
company wide screen-saver community-access-channel type project last
year that I'll rewrite some day using this.
http://groups.google.com/groups?ic=1&q=msgid:Xns90D014E757768cliechtimailsch@62.2.32.50
Milan Zamazal has contributed Python 2.1 documentation in GNU info
format. Thanks to Fred Drake for pointing this out.
http://groups.google.com/groups?ic=1&q=msgid:mailman.993842806.3648.python-list@python.org
Guido reveals that threads of democracy occasionally work loose in
the fabric of the BDFL cloak.
http://groups.google.com/groups?ic=1&q=msgid:cp7kxvlake.fsf@cj20424-a.reston1.va.home.com
OpenDocs put up the first parts of Boudewijn Rempt's Graphical
Programming with Python: QT Edition. The book is under development
and feedback is asked for.
http://groups.google.com/groups?ic=1&q=msgid:mailman.993884385.26860.python-list@python.org
Magnus Lie Hetland hopes to revive Greg Ewing's Python GUI API as a
new project named anygui, which will function in a manner similar to
anydbm in that it will look for existing backends, and use what is
available.
http://groups.google.com/groups?ic=1&q=msgid:9hg7fg$dmg$1@tyfon.itea.ntnu.no
Paul Prescod and the team at ActiveState push the penny ahead with
the starting of the repository of our dreams. This is also the
topic of his BOF in San Diego later this month. The combined
projects show a lot of promise, and are even now quite useful.
http://groups.google.com/groups?ic=1&q=msgid:mailman.993856425.27427.python-list@python.org
Jussi Jumppanen announces the availability of CVS integration for
ZeusEdit, a windows based programmer's source code editor.
http://groups.google.com/groups?ic=1&q=msgid:3B3BB20B.7514@zeusedit.com
Neal Norwitz introduces a new version of PyChecker, a tool for
finding common bugs in python source code. It finds problems that
are typically caught by a compiler for less dynamic languages, like
C and C++.
http://groups.google.com/groups?ic=1&q=msgid:mailman.993642589.9402.python-list@python.org
Pete Shinners releases Pygame 1.1 for Python Game Development.
There are currently several released open source games and
applications built with Pygame.
http://groups.google.com/groups?ic=1&q=msgid:OIVZ6.41208$c7.7431279@typhoon.we.rr.com
Cayce Ullman tells us that SOAP.py is updated now to version 0.9.7
and moves to sourceforge.
http://groups.google.com/groups?ic=1&q=msgid:mailman.993726240.19493.clpa-moderators@python.org
Alex Martelli provides a clue and Dirck Blaskey follows up, showing
how to call a module.
http://groups.google.com/groups?ic=1&q=msgid:6c8b7eb9.0106250030.51be556d@posting.google.com
Robin Becker finds the PMW "loader" slows down imports, and suggests
a solution for introspective Tk apps.
http://groups.google.com/groups?ic=1&q=msgid:4e4PQKAuqKO7EwDj@jessikat.demon.co.uk
Frederik Lundh shows how to un-accent unicode strings for use in
searches and filters.
http://groups.google.com/groups?ic=1&q=msgid:7M0_6.4105$e5.767781@newsb.telia.net
Tim Peters leads us safely through the minefield of threads and generators.
http://groups.google.com/groups?ic=1&q=msgid:mailman.993456458.22004.python-list@python.org
Guido presents a PEP to strip buggy un-used portions of xrange from the system
http://groups.google.com/groups?ic=1&q=msgid:mailman.993578546.30453.python-list@python.org
... which leads Tim Peters and James Logajan to go soul searching.
http://groups.google.com/groups?ic=1&q=msgid:3B39480C.F4808C1F@Lugoj.Com
========================================================================
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.*
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