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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 21)
Date: Mon, 21 Jan 2002 17:09:25 -0600 (CST)
QOTW: "[U]nlike Crays [supercomputers], the M100 [a hand-held
from 1984, still in common use in certain professional circles]
never crashed, so overall it was more productive." Tim Peters
"I do scientific computing for a living, and these days all I use
for new code is python, looking at C libraries and snippets of code
only when I know that I need it." Fernando Perez
Python is the "most powerful language you can still read". Paul Dubois
VisualPython.NET appears as a MSDN download. In a Microsoft-
dominated world, all other news pales in comparison.
Python 2.1.2 is released (for users of Python 2.1 or 2.1.1 who
don't want to upgrade to 2.2).
http://www.python.org/2.1.2/
Privacy is a concern with ActiveState Python on Windows or standard
Python with the win32all extension.
http://groups.google.com/groups?th=2d549683d06ab8a0
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/250580
Mark Hammond comes to the rescue with new win32all releases.
http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=3C4A252A.3020908%40skippinet.com.au
http://starship.python.net/crew/mhammond/win32/PrivacyProblem.html
The Python Spread Module 1.0 provides a wrapper for the Spread messaging
toolkit. There's clearly an application in mind for this wrapper...
http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=mailman.1011109326.31993.clpa-moderators%40python.org
http://www.zope.org/Wikis/ZODB/StandbyStorage
For engineering in the forward direction, PyChecker v0.8.8 helps in the
development of good, solid code.
http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=mailman.1011022022.7295.clpa-moderators%40python.org
The intriguing PyReverse is updated to release 0.2.1, helping with the
documentation of existing code.
http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=slrna48kg2.s2.syt%40gemini.logilab.fr
altis claims Python is a serious language.
http://altis.manilasites.com/2002/01/21
The weave package provides a means of mixing C or C++ into Python code,
permitting interesting optimisation techniques.
http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=mailman.1011113062.15515.python-list%40python.org
More Python, C and C++ synergy: the UK Python Conference 2002 takes
place on 4th, 5th April in Oxford, alongside the Association of C and
C++ Users conference event.
http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=mailman.1011344071.31602.python-list%40python.org
The PythonCard project issues release 0.6.2 of its HyperCard-aspiring
software construction kit.
http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=mailman.1011260881.5074.clpa-moderators%40python.org
A new print magazine, "Py", seeks to cover all aspects of Python
four times a year.
http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=mailman.1011376682.27341.clpa-moderators%40python.org
Related to books and print magazines, Bookland.py v 0.92 generates
bar codes.
http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=m2n0zhpm6h.fsf%40tcraft.cgpp.com
Albatross 0.05 is a Web development framework with lots of documentation.
http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=mailman.1011022022.7294.clpa-moderators%40python.org
Not quite printable, maps with "clickable objects" as PDF files can
be made with PDFMap 1.00.
http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=Pine.LNX.3.96.1020116162649.4931L-100000%40cortex.unice.fr
Python 2.2 arrives for StrongARM-based Pocket PCs.
http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=3c4b444b_10%40news.newsgroups.com
XML, XML-RPC, SOAP and SSL support come to the Sharp Zaurus.
http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=mailman.1011093501.15461.python-list%40python.org
Should comma-separated value tools be part of the standard library?
To the rescue: Python-DSV 1.3.3 is released.
http://groups.google.com/groups?th=cac932a9de0b0389
http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=mailman.1011260882.5075.clpa-moderators%40python.org
Stackless Python has certainly inspired features in "standard" Python,
but it never reached "integration point". Christian Tismer outlines
the future of Stackless...
http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=mailman.1011288507.11431.python-list%40python.org
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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
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.org/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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