This week's Python-URL
[Posted September 25, 2002 by corbet]
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| Dean Goodmanson <ponderor@lycos.com> |
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| Dr. Dobb's Python-URL! - weekly Python news and links (Sep 24) |
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| Tue, 24 Sep 2002 16:22:55 -0000 |
QOTW: "When something "is *EVERYWHERE*", how can it be "clearly VISIBLE"
at the same time?" - Alex Martelli
http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-list/2002-September/123526.html
"... [A]necdotally speaking I find Python development goes faster more as
a result of its very high readability than as a result of low loc/FP."
Peter Hansen
Threads
Another good summary regarding a Python to C++ conversion
http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-list/2002-September/121194.html
Insight into the Python shipped with Mac OS X 10.2 (Jaguar)
http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-list/2002-September/122912.html
Rob Andrews requests ideas for Python advantages on Linux, with many
resources in response
http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=cBci9.43632%24U7.15670948%40twister.socal.rr.com
Where's shared memory functionality in the standard python distribution?
http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-list/2002-September/123431.html
Classifying Python's typing evokes question and discussion of terms
http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-list/2002-September/123509.html
Serial port programming tips, including: get a breakout box
http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-list/2002-September/123523.html
Mathematical perspecives on Programming, ended in the reality of references
http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-list/2002-September/123526.html
Getting started with Internationalization / il8n of a wxWindows app
http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-list/2002-September/123656.html
Reviews and perspective on core programming language books
http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-list/2002-September/123676.html
Is Python 2.2.1 compatible with Tcl/Tk 8.4? Yes, but you must recompile
Python.
http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-list/2002-September/123770.html
Discussion regarding Python as a compiled language
http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-list/2002-September/123776.html
Mark Hammond details the steps for MS Outlook plug-in, finishing with
the Python connection
http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-list/2002-September/124112.html
Misc.
New Python-XML column by Uche Ogbuji at xml.com. First article:
http://www.xml.com/pub/a/2002/09/18/py.html
O'Reilly offers Python Success Stories
http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-announce-list/2002-September/001694.html
Lightweight Languages Worshop 2002 (LL2) Saturday, November 9,
2002 - Cambridge, MA, USA
http://ll2.ai.mit.edu/
3-day Python training session with Mark Lutz in Colorado, on October 28-30
http://www.rmi.net/~lutz/oct02-longmont-class.html
Brett Cannon's Python-dev summary for 2002-09-01 to 2002-09-15
http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-announce-list/2002-September/001695.html
Call for Participation: UK Python Conference 2003, April 2-3 - Oxford.
http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-announce-list/2002-September/001692.html
Software
eGenix.com's mx Python extension packages mxODBC 2.0.5 and BASE 2.0.4
versions released.
http://www.egenix.com
CilentForm HTML forms handler 0.0.2a alpha released
http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-announce-list/2002-September/001705.html
PyReverse 0.4 reverse code generator (plus) released including bug
fixes, pyvcg support and improved documentation
http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-announce-list/2002-September/001702.html
RuneBlade 0.3.2 release includes updates for wxPython 2.3.3.1 and
2.3.2.1, aspect oriented support code, and optimizations and bug fixes
http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-announce-list/2002-September/001701.html
wxPython 2.3.3.1 released - Unicode and many other improvements for
this wxWindows wrapper
http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-announce-list/2002-September/001700.html
Gordon McMillan releases version 5b4 of Installer
http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-announce-list/2002-September/001699.html
The bugfix-release, 0.5.1, of pyOpenSSL is out, and introduces basic
PKCS12 support
http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-announce-list/2002-September/001693.html
Version 0.8.1 of the Python/XML distribution is now available, and
should be considered a beta release
http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-announce-list/2002-September/001691.html
DocUtil's gets a DocFactory: a wxPython based "kind of integrated
publishing environment for documentation"
http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-announce-list/2002-September/001690.html
pyblosxom is a weblogging tool written in Python and modelled after blosxom.
http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-announce-list/2002-September/001689.html
FontTools/TTX 2.0 beta 1, an Open Source Python library and toolkit to
manipulate fonts.
http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-announce-list/2002-September/001688.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
Brett Cannon continues the marvelous tradition established by
Andrew Kuchling and Michael Hudson of summarizing action on the
python-dev mailing list once every other week.
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
The online Python Journal is posted at pythonjournal.cognizor.com.
editor@pythonjournal.com and editor@pythonjournal.cognizor.com
welcome submission of material that helps people's understanding
of Python use, and offer Web presentation of your work.
*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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