From: Skip Montanaro <skip@pobox.com> To: Dr.Dobb's.Python-URL.distribution@starbase.neosoft.com Subject: Dr. Dobb's Python-URL! - weekly Python news and links (Nov 16) Date: Fri, 16 Nov 2001 16:09:17 -0600 (CST) Two new PEPs hit the streets this week: PEP 275 - Switching on Multiple Values http://python.sourceforge.net/peps/pep-0275.html PEP 276 - Simple Iterator for ints http://python.sourceforge.net/peps/pep-0276.html PEP 275 (Marc-Andre Lemburg) has been a hot topic on python-dev while PEP 276 (James Althoff) has been burning up the wires on comp.lang.python: http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2001-November/018526.html http://groups.google.com/groups?th=4834c317087da840 For those of you who know hedgehogs aren't funny looking animals on which you clean your boots before entering the house, Prabhu Ramachandran wraps up an easy-to-install version of VTK-Python: http://groups.google.com/groups?start=25&group=comp.lang.python&selm=mailman.1005849327.21238.python-list%40python.org Whoa! Armin Rego's Psyco reaches version 0.3.2 and he can now double the speed of the pystone benchmark. I think he's onto something folks... http://groups.google.com/groups?th=6bada99c5930c8fa Jonathan Gardner has a VIM module, so you can programmatically control VIM from Python: http://groups.google.com/groups?th=13f2f28c95b560be That old black magic that you weave so well... Laura Creighton asks about introspecting random (food) objects to get an equivalent to map() for methods. She gets several answers. Maybe one is what you've been looking for. http://groups.google.com/groups?th=1644fb0da6d7d0f1 IPC10 is coming, with prestigious keynoters. Mark your calendars. Guido, can you book me into the Lincoln Bedroom? http://groups.google.com/groups?start=125&group=comp.lang.python&selm=mailman.1005681918.28766.python-list%40python.org ======================================================================== 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 Tenth International Python Conference http://www.python10.org 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://www.ddj.com/topics/pythonurl/ http://purl.org/thecliff/python/url.html (dormant) 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.