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 (Mar 11)
Date:	 Mon, 11 Mar 2002 07:36:36 -0600 (CST)

QOTW: "I am once again stunned by how good the Python standard library is.
I spent an afternoon surfing and assumed I'd have to write code, but
urllib does most of what I want by default."  -Andy Robinson


    Seek fame & fortune as a Python developer!
        http://groups.google.com/groups?th=78c19cf834778b56
        http://www.amk.ca/python/writing/python-dev.html
    
    Disipyl is a Python interface to DISLIN, a plotting library.  Cool
    screenshots.
        http://pantheon.yale.edu/~pmm34/disipyl.html
    
    RPy is a Python interface to R, a programming language and environment
    for statistical computing and graphics.
        http://rpy.sourceforge.net/
        http://www.r-project.org/
    
    BBLImage is a collection of tools for processing volume images,
    especially medical images; it includes Pyvox, a Python extension for
    large multi-dimensional arrays.
        http://www.med.upenn.edu/bbl/bblimage
    
    lfm v0.8 is released.  lfm is a 'midnight commander' clone written
    in Python.
        http://www.terra.es/personal7/inigoserna/lfm
    
    Mitchell Charity uses PyInline to add an interesting postscript to an
    essay by Guido about optimizing Python code.
    
      http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=mailman.1015705101.26116.python-list%40python.org
    
    François Pinard shows how to convert images to monochrome with PIL
    in a single line of code.
        http://groups.google.com/groups?th=ad62f29aff8871a6
    
    A question about Python weblogs and Web scripting yields a variety of
    Web-based weblog applications and Web scripting libraries.
        http://groups.google.com/groups?th=2e56b5ff1042343a
      Squishdot -   http://www.squishdot.org/Documentation
      Plone -   http://plone.org
      Albatross -   http://www.object-craft.com.au/projects/albatross
      Webware WebKit -   http://webware.sourceforge.net
      HTMLTMPL -   http://htmltmpl.sourceforge.net
      jonpy -   http://jonpy.sourceforge.net
    
    Mike Olson and Uche Ogbuji examine the Zolera SOAP Interface in this
    article, the second in a series.
        http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/library/ws-pyth6
    
    Python User Groups now have their own page on the Python web site:
        http://www.python.org/UserGroups.html
    
    
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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

    *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.*

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