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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 (Jan 2)
Date: Wed, 2 Jan 2002 10:59:31 -0600 (CST)
After alphas, betas and release candidates, Python 2.2 "final"
is available at long last.
http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=mailman.1008968762.11408.clpa-moderators%40python.org
Jython 2.1 was released recently, too.
http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=mailman.1009809280.21269.python-list%40python.org
One of the "special edition" versions of Python 2.2 is the one
available for OS/2+EMX.
http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=mailman.1009405444.3732.clpa-moderators%40python.org
Binary packages do exist for less well-known operating systems - how
about RISC OS?
http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=mailman.1009109461.13764.clpa-moderators%40python.org
Back in the "mainstream", MacPython 2.2 also quickly follows the
main Python 2.2 release.
http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=mailman.1009493112.645.clpa-moderators%40python.org
And even the Sharp Zaurus gets Python 2.2c1, courtesy of Phil Thompson.
http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=mailman.1008893605.27468.python-list%40python.org
But will Python ever be available for Mono or .NET... or Parrot?
Ron Stephens starts the new year with discussions on those themes.
http://groups.google.com/groups?th=76afb2052769d3a7
http://groups.google.com/groups?th=f02f9f01e9d30d78
Stackless threads raise deep issues about coding style, concurrency
mechanisms, and more.
http://groups.google.com/groups?th=2442680516e6e52a
http://groups.google.com/groups?th=597402650b88d48a
Seemingly offering DTML-like templating, "Albatross is a small toolkit
for developing highly stateful web applications."
http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=mailman.1009405443.3730.clpa-moderators%40python.org
How about client-side DHTML scripting in Python? A simple example is
posted.
http://groups.google.com/groups?th=c4ed88a3ad1fad59
Zope's documentation gets critical attention. How easy is it to
persuade one's boss that Zope is just the thing?
http://groups.google.com/groups?th=1221d8b190933982
Which of the Python books are most suitable for non-beginners?
http://groups.google.com/groups?th=6d7debe411f805e2
It may excite more than a few people that Bruce Eckel's long-awaited
work "Thinking in Python" is progressing.
http://www.mindview.net/Books/TIPython
It's a real shock when Python seems to have gone missing. In classic
comp.lang.python style, the discussion wanders into areas such as
line endings, distutils and Red Hat.
http://groups.google.com/groups?th=b91141f106be4c9d
Indeed, which version of Python is commonly in use, and what's going
on with Python 1.5.2 on Red Hat Linux?
http://groups.google.com/groups?th=c2ff830ed213cc1f
Ciphon 0.3.5 is available - it's a CPAN-like package
installer/downloader for Python.
http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=slrna2n8hb.5kj.ssthapa%40hepcat.telocity.com
XML Matters in Python, at least at IBM developerWorks.
http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/xml/library/x-matters15.html?open&l=968,t=gr,p=rpc
For all those game writing types, PyGame 1.3 is released to make
their lives even easier.
http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=3C219665.1050804%40shinners.org
Michal Wallace invites comments on his Python billing system.
http://www.sixthdev.com/wiki.cgi/duckbill
Andreas Jung announces PyStemmer - a wrapper around the Snowball project.
http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=mailman.1008886382.30332.clpa-moderators%40python.org
And the greatest minds of Python put their heads together to work out
how old they all are.
http://groups.google.com/groups?th=13768ad1bd18542
========================================================================
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
Mygale is a news-gathering webcrawler that specializes in (new)
World-Wide Web articles related to Python.
http://www.awaretek.com/nowak/mygale.html
While cosmetically similar, Mygale and the Daily Python-URL
are utterly different in their technologies and generally in
their results.
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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