Dr. Dobb's Python-URL! - October 21, 2002

QOTW:  "I regard [the Stackless technology merge] as the beginning of the
reunion of my brain halves."  Christian Tismer
http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=mailman.1034834665.3845.python-list%40python.org

"This is Rule #1 of Python optimization: Any Python program using a dict is
1000x faster than any C program.  There are no exceptions to this rule
<ahem>."  Tim Peters


Articles
    Christian Tismer announces a long-anticipated technology merge for
    Stackless:
        http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=mailman.1034834665.3845.python-list%40python.org

Threads
    A question about SOAP.py leads to a productive discussion of the
    relative merits of SOAP and XML-RPC, and how they relate to Python:
        http://groups.google.com/groups?threadm=73c9b534.0210190805.559c4b92%40posting.google.com

    Discussion of a "Python pattern repository," a sort of implicit
    Cookbook on Usenet/Google keyed off with searchable token:
       http://groups.google.com/groups?threadm=Xns92ABD92A93C6Ccliechtigmxnet%4062.2.16.82

    A frequently asked question about what makes Python a good
    language, with its frequently answered and constructive answers:
        http://groups.google.com/groups?threadm=v1dtoa.rj3.ln%40ix.netcom.com

Software
    Python version 2.2.2 is officially released:
        http://www.python.org/2.2.2/

    Stackless Python has been ported to vesion 2.2.2 a day after its
    release:
        http://www.stackless.com/

    Greg Ewing releases version 0.4.5 of Pyrex, which includes a
    'public' declaration for making Pyrex-defined variables and
    functions accessible to external C code:
        http://www.cosc.canterbury.ac.nz/~greg/python/Pyrex/

    Greg Ward announces version 1.4 of Optik, a command-line parsing
    library:
        http://optik.sourceforge.net/

    Barry A. Warsaw announces the release of version 2.0 of ht2html,
    the Web page templating system which is used to build the
    www.python.org site:
        http://sourceforge.net/projects/ht2html

    XIST version 2.0 is an XML-based extensible HTML generator (and
    DOM parser) written in Python:
       http://www.livinglogic.de/Python/xist/

    Active Spam Killer version 2.2 is a Python-powered antispam tool
    which uses whitelist techniques:
        http://www.paganini.net/ask/

    IMGV version 2.2 is a platform-independent image viewer using
    Python and pygame:
        http://www.seekrut.com/toxicpulse/imgv/imgv.html

Meetings and courses
    Enthought announces a "Building C/C++ Extensions for Python"
    course, taught by David Beazley, David Abrahams, and Eric Jones,
    to take place in Austin, Texas on December 9-11:
        http://www.enthought.com/training/building_extensions.html

    MEETUP organizes the first International Python Meetup Day for
    November 14, 7 pm local time everywhere:
        http://python.meetup.com/

Resources
    Uche Ogbuji has written an article outlining how to use Python
    generators in conjunction with XML processing:
        http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/xml/library/x-tipgenr.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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