From: "Jason Orendorff" <jason@jorendorff.com> To: Dr.Dobb's.Python-URL.distribution@starbase.neosoft.com Subject: Dr. Dobb's Python-URL! - weekly Python news and links (Feb 11) Date: Mon, 11 Feb 2002 14:59:29 -0600 (CST) QOTW: "'poly-what?' Yes, python is polymorphic, but there's no need to get all fancy-pants about it." -Quinn Dunkan "Good general rule: if Tim made it that way, it's supposed to be that way." -Steve Holden "[J]ust fire up python and start typing. i like that." -Mark McEahern, on his naive pickling technique "I was wondering if there's any kind of definitive nickname for Perl programmers, the way we call ourselves Pythonistas?" -Aahz Maruch "Masochists." -Daniel Klein "I'd just like to take this moment to point out that C has all the expressive power of two dixie cups and a string." -Jamie Zawinski, in the source code for xkeycaps TTX translates TrueType fonts to an XML format and back, enabling you to edit TrueType fonts with a plain text editor. http://www.letterror.com/code/ttx The 10th International Python Conference took place February 4-7. Several remarkable slide shows are now available online, along with a student video. http://www.python.org/workshops/2002-02/ PyGame 1.4 is released. PyGame is a set of Python modules for writing games. This version adds support for Mac OSX. It's also easier to build EXE's on Windows with the pygame2exe sample script. http://www.pygame.org/ StandaloneZODB is a Python object persistency system. Version 1.0 final is out! http://groups.google.com/groups?th=725c2a321d15543c Anygui is a simple, generic module for building GUIs in Python. It can run on top of many different toolkits. The first official release is version 0.1 - check out the screenshots! http://sourceforge.net/projects/anygui http://anygui.sourceforge.net/screenshots.php Benchmarks show Python is still slower than Java. http://groups.google.com/groups?th=5ea1ffa9db9c9e99 Jeremy Hylton and Skip Montanaro presented ideas for making Python faster at Python 10. These have triggered a flurry of activity on the Python-Dev list. For the technically inclined: http://www.python.org/~jeremy/talks/spam10/PEP-267-1.html http://manatee.mojam.com/~skip/python/ipc10/PEP-266-1.html Pyco is experimental software for building smaller Windows executables from Python programs. http://www.pythonapocrypha.com/projects/pyco/ Are any HTTP proxy servers written in Python? http://groups.google.com/groups?th=9171610619278850 "Courageous" toys with hygienic macros (a la Scheme) in Python. http://groups.google.com/groups?th=619ad5469f24308b The Google Programming Contest accepts submissions in only three languages: C++, Java, and Python. http://www.google.com/programming-contest/ ======================================================================== 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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