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 7) Date: Mon, 7 Jan 2002 10:24:27 -0600 (CST) The "official" XML processing suite for Python sees another release: PyXML 0.7. http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=mailman.1009964102.4152.clpa-moderators%40python.org Python 2.2 for Sharp Zaurus has arrived! Zaurus is a Linux/Java-based Personal Digital Assistant. http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=mailman.1010024104.15697.python-list%40python.org DOSSIER publishes Python references. http://www.ptf.com/dossier Cygwin Python 2.2-1 has also been released - Cygwin provides a "UNIX feel" inside Windows. http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=mailman.1010164681.26484.clpa-moderators%40python.org If generating standalone executables for Windows is of interest, py2exe 0.2.7 should prove useful. http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=mailman.1010073421.5751.clpa-moderators%40python.org And for making sure that your code doesn't hide nasty runtime surprises, there's PyChecker v0.8.7. http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=mailman.1010355242.18483.clpa-moderators%40python.org "cgidocs.py is a CGI-based Viewer for the Python 2.2 Documentation." http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=3c356bd6.959101625%40news.isar.de There are numerous options for Oracle database connectivity in Python. Here's one of them: cx_Oracle 2.4. http://groups.google.com/groups?th=343b4254f041ea19 A recurring topic: is game development a feasible activity for Python? http://groups.google.com/groups?th=76033e630f3bb53d Is it time to evaluate the different "date and time arithmetic" modules available for Python? http://groups.google.com/groups?th=4c6698791f9003a0 Perhaps the time period library, period-0.5, can be used in the automation of such periodic re-evaluations! http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=mailman.1010355241.18480.clpa-moderators%40python.org Meanwhile, the Python Conference (Python 10) News is mounting up. http://groups.google.com/groups?th=bf2a234e7ee4a63 Birds-of-a-Feather (BoF) submissions are now welcome for Python 10. http://www.python10.org/p10-callBoFs.html "The Tenth International Python Conference, February 4 - 7, 2002 at The Hilton Alexandria Mark Center, Alexandria, Virginia" http://www.python10.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 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.* 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. 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