From:	 Quinn Dunkan <quinn@yak.ugcs.caltech.edu>
To:	 Dr.Dobb's.Python-URL.distribution@starbase.neosoft.com
Subject: Dr. Dobb's Python-URL! - weekly Python news and links (Oct  9)
Date:	 Tue, 9 Oct 2001 16:31:18 -0500 (CDT)

    Here's a cool oracular python program.  Impress your friends!
        http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&threadm=3bbaf6c9%240%24244%24edfadb0f%40dspool01.news.tele.dk
    
    Everyone knows about Zope, but there are a lot of other python HTML-writing
    solutions.  Some people have collected links with quick overviews:
        http://www.paul.boddie.net/Python/web_modules.html
        http://webware.sf.net/Papers/Templates/
    
    True to c.l.py tradition, a budding GPL war veers randomly off into an
    argument about the usage of apostrophe's:
        http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&oe=ISO-8859-1&threadm=9pn44q%24m1r%241%40tyfon.itea.ntnu.no
    (Would Strunk & White have liked Python?  It's simple, clear, regular...)
    
    Gerhard maintains the python category at dmoz.org.  Put it in your bookmarks
    next to www.vex.net/parnassus!
        http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&threadm=mailman.1002355626.16248.python-list%40python.org
    dmoz.org entry:
        http://dmoz.org/Computers/Programming/Languages/Python/Modules/
    
    Zope vs. PHP for SQL-oriented sites?  Cameron gives an even-handed (well, it
    *sounds* even-handed) answer.  In brief, Zope is cool but the conceptual
    difficulty in getting the Zope Zen (this has been a problem ever since the
    beginning) can make it slow going for newbies until they get everything
    together.  Followups note that efforts are underway to fix this with
    more and better documentation, and that the somewhat grotty DTML template
    language is being superseded by Page Templates, which are desgined to
    work well with HTML editors and separate the "page design" from the "add
    dynamic doohickeys" work:
        http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&threadm=B72B302E37066816.6331F170A093A2AF.D02BC798CFF1B3F5%40lp.airnews.net
    
    2.2 will be coming out RSN, and those seeking details on all the spiffy
    (or feeping, depending on your point of view) new features are probably
    best served by
        http://www.python.org/2.2/descrintro.html
    ... but for those who want to see how they will fit into the main
    documentation (or who want to proofread it... you never know), the
    development docs have been updated:
        http://python.sourceforge.net/devel-docs/


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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  

    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.de/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

    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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