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README: Python-URL! - the weekly guide to Python resources (Sep 7)
by David Ascher Sept. 21, 1999

Sept. 21, 1999

End of summer fruit from comp.lang.python and related trees: The next International Python Conference is scheduled, and the program committee eagerly awaits paper submissions: http://www.python.org/workshops/2000-01/ http://www.python.org/workshops/2000-01/cfp.html Andreas Jung self-deprecatingly misses the elegance of a simple program he wrote to beautify XML: http://www.deja.com/getdoc.xp?AN=520249301 While we're talking about XML, there are announcements from the FourThought folks of the backend tools they talked about in Monterey: http://www.python.org/pipermail/xml-sig/1999-September/001420.html http://www.python.org/pipermail/xml-sig/1999-September/001421.html http://www.python.org/pipermail/xml-sig/1999-September/001422.html Mark Hammond says that "it works fine", whether he's talking about MTS, the registry, audits, permissions, remote servers, etc. We're getting jaded! http://www.deja.com/getdoc.xp?AN=521155191 http://www.deja.com/getdoc.xp?AN=520824493 Mark also announces that his win32 extensions are now under CVS control: http://starship.python.net/crew/mhammond/cvs.html In the "scary" category, Greg Ewing takes a sneaky way around an implementation trick and pretends it's the "design pattern" that Magnus Hetland asked for (and Magnus agrees!): http://www.deja.com/getdoc.xp?AN=517466084 http://www.deja.com/getdoc.xp?AN=520858452 Tim Peters regales us with more details about strings in Python than you cared to know about: http://www.deja.com/getdoc.xp?AN=521587749 Among lots of rambling dispatches on the topic of Turing completeness and other nonsense, Greg Ewing sets us straight on the future of Python: http://www.python.org/pipermail/python-list/1999-September/017036.html In the field of useless algorithms people like to bicker about, the ugly truth emerges that version skew exists even for "authoritative" books: http://www.deja.com/getdoc.xp?AN=519554469 PS: Your editor wants to know if you prefer deja.com URLs or python.org pipermail URLs -- send him email at mailto:da@ski.org ========================================================================= Everything you want is probably one or two clicks away in these pages: Python.org's Python Language Website is the center of Pythonia http://www.python.org Much of Python's real work takes place on Special-Interest Group mailing lists http://www.python.org/sigs/ Python Consortium emerges as an independent nexus of activity http://www.python.org/consortium Python To-Do List anticipates some of Python's future direction http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/todo.py Python Journal is at work on its second issue http://www.pythonjournal.com Links2Go is a new semi-automated link collection; it's impressive what AI can generate http://www.links2go.com/search?search=python Archive probing trick of the trade: http://www.dejanews.com/dnquery.xp?QRY=&DBS=2&ST=PS&defaultOp=AND&LNG=ALL&f… Previous - (U)se the (R)esource, (L)uke! - messages are listed here: http://purl.org/thecliff/python/url.html or http://www.dejanews.com/dnquery.xp?QRY=~g%20comp.lang.python%20Python-URL%21 Suggestions/corrections for next week's posting are always welcome. http://www.egroups.com/list/python-url-leads/ To receive a new issue of this posting in e-mail each Monday morning, ask <claird(a)neosoft.com> to subscribe. -- The Python-URL! Team-- == Cameron Laird http://starbase.neosoft.com/~claird/home.html claird(a)NeoSoft.com +1 281 996 8546 FAX -- ----------- comp.lang.python.announce (moderated) ---------- Article Submission Address: python-announce(a)python.org Python Language Home Page: http://www.python.org/ Python Quick Help Index: http://www.python.org/Help.html ------------------------------------------------------------

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Zope Weekly News - Wed, 01 Sep 1999
by Christopher Petrilli Sept. 21, 1999

Sept. 21, 1999

Hi there! Filling in for Amos as he tries to get the new Zope site readied for public presentation! It's still in beta... Well, this has been the busiest week of all, or at least in a long long time, for Zope development. Not only was beta 6 released, but the final release of Zope 2 has finally been made! In celebration, we're going to continue working on documentation and resolving any outstanding issues! Other items of interest this past week: * First! Zope 2.0 is finally released and out of BETA! :-) Find all the gory details here: http://www.zope.org/Download/Releases/Zope-2.0.0/ * Lots of new items (HOW-TOs, contributed software) on the new beta site. Take a look! http://www.zope.org:18200 * It was revealed that the <dtml-sendmail> tag doesn't participate in the transaction machinery http://www.zope.org/pipermail/zope/1999-August/008968.html * Juergen Specht started an interesting thread on data validation and the difficulty in even figuring out what an e-mail address is. http://www.zope.org/pipermail/zope/1999-August/008982.html * Zope gets some good press in the TechWeb publication, which Paul shares with us all. http://www.zope.org/pipermail/zope/1999-August/009011.html * Various people expressed the concerns with search sites crawling a dynamic site like Zope, but perhaps it's not an issue as is discussed in the thread. http://www.zope.org/pipermail/zope/1999-August/009058.html * It's discovered that you can't use tree tags with SQL queries the way you might expect, but there are some solutions. http://www.zope.org/pipermail/zope/1999-August/009089.html * Evan Simpson reveals his first attempt at embedded Python code objects in the Zope database. http://www.zope.org/pipermail/zope/1999-August/009107.html * John Udell provides some much welcome publicity on Zope as well: http://www.byte.com/column/threads/BYT19990824S0013 * A new version of the ZOracleDA was released, providing full thread-safety under Zope2. http://www.zope.org/pipermail/zope/1999-August/009192.html * Beehive in Germany releases a product to help write products. Is that a meta-product? ;-) http://www.zope.org/pipermail/zope/1999-August/009225.html Zigning off for now, Chris == | Christopher Petrilli Python Powered Digital Creations, Inc. | petrilli(a)digicool.com http://www.digicool.com -- ----------- comp.lang.python.announce (moderated) ---------- Article Submission Address: python-announce(a)python.org Python Language Home Page: http://www.python.org/ Python Quick Help Index: http://www.python.org/Help.html ------------------------------------------------------------

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Zope 2.0.0 final released
by Brian Lloyd Sept. 21, 1999

Sept. 21, 1999

Hi all, We are happy to announce that at long last Zope 2.0.0 final has been released! Zope 2 is the result of a lot of hard work by both Digital Creations and the Zope community - thanks to all of you who have contributed bug reports, patches, feedback and good ideas to the effort. We feel that Zope 2 represents a great leap forward, and we hope you'll agree that the time spent has been worth it. Zope 2 includes: - A high performance, multithreaded publishing environment - ZODB 3, the next generation of the Zope Object Database - Z Classes, a new mechanism for building Zope applications - Built in searching and indexing support with ZCatalog - WebDAV level 1 support - FTP support - Support for XML-RPC clients. - ZServer, the integration of Zope and Medusa, - Builtin XML support and DOM interfaces - Many other sundry big significant items, such as: o Look and feel improvements, o Tighter security, o Simpler creation of Python products. Zope 2.0 distributions are available on both the "official" Zope.org website at: http://www.zope.org/ as well as on the new Zope.org beta site at http://www.zope.org:18200. Brian Lloyd brian(a)digicool.com Software Engineer 540.371.6909 Digital Creations http://www.digicool.com <P><A HREF="http://www.zope.org/">Zope 2.0.0 final</A> - Zope is a free, open source web application platform used for building high-performance, dynamic web sites. (01-Sep-99) -- ----------- comp.lang.python.announce (moderated) ---------- Article Submission Address: python-announce(a)python.org Python Language Home Page: http://www.python.org/ Python Quick Help Index: http://www.python.org/Help.html ------------------------------------------------------------

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README: Python-URL! - the weekly guide to Python resources (Aug 30)
by David Ascher Sept. 21, 1999

Sept. 21, 1999

Highly biased highlights from the O'Reilly conference: Tom Christiansen joins Guido and a few other Pythonistas for beer and random trivia (does || or && bind tighter in C?). A jovial time was had by all, and nothing caught on fire. There were more folks looking for Python programmers than Python programmers looking for a job! The future's so bright, we gotta wear shades. eGroups CTO Scott Hassan says that they pump 30 million emails a day with Python without breaking a sweat, and expect to scale up to 200-300 million personalized emails per day. Big numbers for a 'slow' language! When Adam Feuer was asked whether he was having fun, he replied: "I'm having a blast -- I've been using Python for six months, and I feel like I'm having an affair with the language!" http://www.linuxslides.com/ http://www.vwtapes.com/cgi-local/vwcart.pl?page=/oreilly/99/python.html Having the old fogies out of the way spurred activity on the newsgroup: One old fogie remained: Fredrik Lundh "parses arbitrary python expressions" he doesn't trust http://x32.deja.com/getdoc.xp?AN=506369193 and Bernhard Herzog shows how to sneak in statements http://x29.deja.com/getdoc.xp?AN=506541895 Arpad Kiss provides one minimal example of how COM can be useful by retrieving document properties into a Py- thon process http://x46.deja.com/getdoc.xp?AN=508285498 David Niergarth "unmangles" a Win* "long name", but only with difficulty. No better solutions appear http://x27.deja.com/getdoc.xp?AN=510820469 Colin J Williams describes Hans Nowak's page of "snippets" as "clean and well-organized" http://www.hvision.nl/~ivnowa/snippets/ Karl Putland retrieves a collection through COM http://x24.deja.com/getdoc.xp?AN=505637404 Charles G Waldman carefully illuminates several alternative ways to shuffle cards http://x38.deja.com/getdoc.xp?AN=513914923 Nihilist Tim Peters, once again misremembering which is the "dismal science", counters that "even the best possible al- gorithm ... is terrible" http://x37.deja.com/getdoc.xp?AN=514317775 Other poetry from the same thread: Mersenne Twister, tears- in-the-rain, Chi-squares, /dev/random People seem to argue a lot about nothing, specifically: The necessesity of pass statements in empty blocks, and whether returning None is a trap. Some of the more useful posts: http://www.deja.com/getdoc.xp?AN=516955938 http://www.deja.com/getdoc.xp?AN=518128657 More usefully, some etymological truths are laid bare, specifically regarding nautical techniques thanks to Fredrik Henbjork the fisherman http://www.deja.com/getdoc.xp?AN=515457138 and Tim Peters and Kent Polk argue about who the real mathematical geniuses are http://www.deja.com/getdoc.xp?AN=518132556 In a blast from the past, what used to be Ted Nelson's Xanadu is bared to all, and some might be surprised to know what languages it's written in: http://www.udanax.com/ ========================================================================= Everything you want is probably one or two clicks away in these pages: Python.org's Python Language Website is the center of Pythonia http://www.python.org Much of Python's real work takes place on Special-Interest Group mailing lists http://www.python.org/sigs/ Python Consortium emerges as an independent nexus of activity http://www.python.org/consortium Python To-Do List anticipates some of Python's future direction http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/todo.py Python Journal is at work on its second issue http://www.pythonjournal.com Links2Go is a new semi-automated link collection; it's impressive what AI can generate http://www.links2go.com/search?search=python Archive probing trick of the trade: http://www.dejanews.com/dnquery.xp?QRY=&DBS=2&ST=PS&defaultOp=AND&LNG=ALL&f… Previous - (U)se the (R)esource, (L)uke! - messages are listed here: http://purl.org/thecliff/python/url.html or http://www.dejanews.com/dnquery.xp?QRY=~g%20comp.lang.python%20Python-URL%21 Suggestions/corrections for next week's posting are always welcome. http://www.egroups.com/list/python-url-leads/ To receive a new issue of this posting in e-mail each Monday morning, ask <claird(a)neosoft.com> to subscribe. -- The Python-URL! Team-- == Cameron Laird http://starbase.neosoft.com/~claird/home.html claird(a)NeoSoft.com +1 281 996 8546 FAX -- ----------- comp.lang.python.announce (moderated) ---------- Article Submission Address: python-announce(a)python.org Python Language Home Page: http://www.python.org/ Python Quick Help Index: http://www.python.org/Help.html ------------------------------------------------------------

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Zope Weekly News - Wed, 25 Aug 1999
by Pam Crosby Sept. 21, 1999

Sept. 21, 1999

Hello, We had several discussions on the mailing list as to the gender of Zope. It's an 'it'. For a relatively quiet, vacation week, we had another beta release, some HowTo's and two announcements. CNET mentioned Zope favorably in Dan Shafer article about Python. Also, Linux Today mention the same article. http://buzz.builder.com/cgi-bin/WebX?14@101.PwqganhkenJ^0@.ee7bc67/0 http://linuxtoday.com/stories/9043.html Zope 2.0.0b5 release now available. History of fixes available on line and in the installation documentation. http://www.zope.org/Download/Releases/Zope-2.0.0b5 Paolo Bizzarri has made available version 0.1 of the SQLPackage online. Documentation is included in the email. http://www.zope.org/pipermail/zope/1999-August/008638.html Alexander Staubo has announced Redirector 1.0. Redirector is an experimental folder product for redirecting object requests. http://www.zope.org/pipermail/zope/1999-August/008755.html The O'Reilly conference went exceedingly well. A review of the tutorial Paul Everitt delivered: http://legacydiscuss.userland.com/msgReader$9785 Andreas Kostyrka offered a HowTo to change a DTML method into a document or the other way. http://www.zope.org/pipermail/zope/1999-August/008791.html A mailing list strictly for the purposes of discussing E-Commerce solutions using Zope has been established. It's called ZCommerce. Anyone who is interested in subscribing can either go to http://lists.codeit.com/mailman/listinfo/zcommerce to subscribe, or email zcommerce-request(a)codeit.com with 'subscribe' as the subject to be added to the list. Until next week, Amos will be back! == Pamela Crosby Technical Writer mailto:pam@digicool.com Digital Creations http://www.digicool.com -- ----------- comp.lang.python.announce (moderated) ---------- Article Submission Address: python-announce(a)python.org Python Language Home Page: http://www.python.org/ Python Quick Help Index: http://www.python.org/Help.html ------------------------------------------------------------

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ANN: Python Announcements...
by Markus Fleck Sept. 21, 1999

Sept. 21, 1999

Dear fellow Pythoneers, the articles queue for comp.lang.python.announce has been stalled since August 22, 1999 - mostly due to a temporary lack of time on my part. There is currently a backlog of about 80 messages. You can help to speed up the moderation process significantly by adhering to the posting guidelines that are posted bi-weekly to comp.lang.python and comp.lang.python.announce. In particular, life would become a lot easier for me if all submitted announcements already included the requested HTML mark-up footer (which is used to give a one-sentence summary of each announcement at the www.python.org home page). You can always find the latest version of the comp.lang.python.announce posting guidelines at the following URL: <ftp://rtfm.mit.edu/pub/usenet/comp.lang.python/python-newsgroup-faq>. Currently pending announcements will not be sent out all at once, but will be distributed over the next few days, so as to avoid overloading the inboxes of those people who have subscribed to comp.lang.python.announce via the "python-announce-list" mailing list. If you want to convert your mailing list subscription to digest format, or temporarily suspend your mailing list subscription, you should do so now by visiting the list's Mailman web page at <http://www.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-announce-list>. I appreciate your patience, and the offers for help that I have received. Of course, I am truly delighted to see so many announcements being posted to comp.lang.python.announce - and all the time we're getting closer to having the 1000th posting to comp.lang.python.announce by Y2K... -:^) Happy hacking, -- Markus Fleck (Moderator) from sys import*;from string import*;a=argv;[s,p,q]=filter(lambda x:x[:1]!= '-',a);d='-d'in a;e,n=atol(p,16),atol(q,16);l=(len(q)+1)/2;o,inb=l-d,l-1+d while s:s=stdin.read(inb);s and map(stdout.write,map(lambda i,b=pow(reduce( lambda x,y:(x<<8L)+y,map(ord,s)),e,n):chr(b>>8*i&255),range(o-1,-1,-1))) -- RSA in Python (or so I've been told <wink>) -- ----------- comp.lang.python.announce (moderated) ---------- Article Submission Address: python-announce(a)python.org Python Language Home Page: http://www.python.org/ Python Quick Help Index: http://www.python.org/Help.html ------------------------------------------------------------

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