From: "Cameron Laird" <claird@NeoSoft.com> To: python-announce-list@python.org Subject: Dr. Dobb's Python-URL! - weekly Python news and links (Jul 30) Date: Thu, 2 Aug 2001 15:36:45 -0500 (CDT) Quotes of the week: Paul Prescod: Perl users seem remarkably accepting of change considering the installed base of the language. Paul Prescod: Moore's law is slowly making type declarations irrelevant. Stephen: The web just doesn't lend itself to building look-ahead auto-complete fields for names, emails etc. Uwe Zessin releases Python 2.1.1 for OpenVMS http://www.decus.de/~zessin/python2/ Harry George offers example use of setup.py http://groups.google.com/groups?th=18626bc240f7e9e3 June Kim and Dave Brueck present the argument in favor of dynamic typing http://groups.google.com/groups?th=2d17178851b0f98e Thomas Weholt's relatively innocent question about distributed computing technologies leads to deep (if largely Python-free) and even important analyses by Tim Daneliuk, Graham Dumpleton, Galen Swint, and others. Also in the same thread, Ng Pheng Siong provides nice performance boosts for SOAP. http://groups.google.com/groups?th=559ffaccf0ac9907 You can submit a paper for the tenth Python Conference http://www.python10.org/p10-callpapers.html Duncan Grisby provides a fine quick-start tutorial to CORBA use, as well as directions to a public fortune-cookie service http://groups.google.com/groups?th=2244bf713d379f2e Guido launches a lively and important newsgroup thread on the reality of type-class unification (and discloses his own temporal intuition is accurate only to a decimal order-and-a-half of magnitude) http://groups.google.com/groups?th=a8dc15aab8832a6b Front Range Pythoneers energetically dispute the validation theology involved in PyUnit (look for "Doctest" as a subject) http://community.tummy.com/pipermail/frpythoneers/2001-July/thread.html David Mertz teaches that Pippy is a port of Python to PalmOS http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/linux/library/l-pippy?open&l=252,t=grl,p=Pyth4PalmOS Now it's called, "Zope Corporation" http://www.zope.com/News/PressReleases/DC2ZC ======================================================================== 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. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-announce-list