From:	 Paul Boddie <paul@boddie.net>
To:	 Dr.Dobb's.Python-URL.distribution@starbase.neosoft.com
Subject: Dr. Dobb's Python-URL! - weekly Python news and links (Dec 17)
Date:	 Mon, 17 Dec 2001 07:34:30 -0600 (CST)

QOTW:  "I'm ready to bet a good lunch at Bologna's best restaurant,
wine included, that dependencies will become much more common, i.e.,
that reuse will indeed have been encouraged."  Alex Martelli [on
CPAN, Python and dependencies]

    "Release candidate 1" brings the final release of Python 2.2 one
    step closer.
        http://groups.google.com/groups?th=ca492fd6f83f8427

    It may have seemed stupid to ask how a Python program can be
    distributed stand-alone, but how often does jythonc get
    mentioned in response?
        http://groups.google.com/groups?th=40655c77b2331e34

    Some time ago, Paul Tchistopolskii regarded Zope as being the
    Windows 3.0 of the Web. That may seem harsh, but there haven't
    been many protests - perhaps he has a point...
        http://www.pault.com/pault/zope/zope.html

    Comparing like with like, now, and a more straightforward
    comparison has to be between the Apache components mod_python and
    mod_snake. If you want to do CGI-like things, but faster, a few
    suggestions are offered.
        http://groups.google.com/groups?th=feacc6d11cc98af1

    Alexandre Fayolle inadvertently rises to the challenge of last
    week's "Python-URL!" with a summary of interesting XML modules.
        http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=slrna1ci7t.9tl.alf%40sagittarius.logilab.fr

    And on the subject of "Python as XML", whatever happened to Xython?
        http://sourceforge.net/projects/xython/

    Mygale seems to make the "Python-URL!" editor's job redundant...
    or easier?
        http://www.awaretek.com/nowak/mygale.html

    Talking of vaults, whatever happened to the Python CPAN?
        http://groups.google.com/groups?th=2ab22a9d10d675a3

    Well, Suchandra Thapa exposes ciphon to beta testing.
        http://groups.google.com/groups?th=add05b3ce874d380

    And remember the Software Carpentry project? Well, here's the
    first release of SCons - the build/make tool of that project.
        http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=mailman.1008305779.12195.python-list%40python.org

    Meanwhile, here's an SMTP server written in Python. Just in
    case you ever needed one.
        http://www.hare.demon.co.uk/pysmtp.html

    Wanted: speakers for a Python event in the United Kingdom.
        http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=mailman.1008168137.12533.python-list%40python.or


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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

    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.*

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