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 (Feb 4) Date: Mon, 4 Feb 2002 20:15:01 -0600 (CST) QOTW: "[B]elieve it or not the big money is in tracking golf carts." Larry "Software basically sucks." Tim Peters "One less file is one less thing to get screwed up in the distribution, IMHO." Joshua Muskovitz Stackless Python returns with a 2.2 alpha release! http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=mailman.1012273506.27877.clpa-moderators%40python.org Brian represents Zope Corporation in releasing Zope 2.5.0. http://www.zope.org/Products/Zope/2.5.0/zope_250_release List comprehensions meet generators for the first time (in theory, at least) but nested scopes remain conspicuously absent. http://groups.google.com/groups?th=215e6e5a7bfd526 http://groups.google.com/groups?th=df8b5e7709957eb7 The dataflow.py toolkit provides dataflow-oriented programming in Python... using iterators and generators. http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=mailman.1012487991.6116.python-list%40python.org The print magazine "Py" is ready for preordering. http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=mailman.1012673764.20183.clpa-moderators%40python.org The O'Reilly Open Source Convention is looking for Python and Zope participants. http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=mailman.1012273503.27874.clpa-moderators%40python.org And the Ottawa Linux Symposium calls for papers. http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=mailman.1012273504.27875.clpa-moderators%40python.org The eGenix.com extensions (such as the popular mxDateTime and mxODBC) now have their own mailing list. http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=mailman.1012319341.25785.clpa-moderators%40python.org Herbrip is a Python implementation of an e-mail encryption system. http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=slrna5b46q.cfu.philh%40comuno.freeserve.co.uk PyReverse reaches 0.2.2 but, on the subject of CASE tools and class diagrams, is there anything in Python which understands XMI? http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=mailman.1012273502.27872.clpa-moderators%40python.org http://groups.google.com/groups?th=f061a3675d191d99 SilverCity understands lexical details about a number of languages. http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=mailman.1012684745.32090.python-list%40python.org How can you find out which methods belong to an object? Use the inspect module, of course! http://groups.google.com/groups?th=38e85ff1b283359f Python is a useful tool in both vim and Emacs. http://www.vex.net/parnassus/apyllo.py?i=860466779 http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=mailman.1012352629.27652.python-list%40python.org System administration often involves password management; for example, how can one change passwords on Windows? http://groups.google.com/groups?th=8cec4679a555ef35 John DeWeese discovers Panda3D on SourceForge - it's a Python-driven rendering engine. http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=a3b24h%24kc6%241%40usc.ed ======================================================================== 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 *Py: the Journal of the Python Language* http://www.pyzine.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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