Almost lost in a sea of messages about programming in the dark ages, we find some gems in this week's Python universe: g.j. andruk (a.k.a. Meow) releases a module to speed up reading from files, using some of Rich $alz's INN code. Expect 2x-5x speedup on standard line-at-a-time usage. http://members.xoom.com/meowing/python/ An interesting discussion on the topic of making translatable strings emerges. Thread starts at: http://www.deja.com/getdoc.xp?AN=525858204 Christian Tismer makes a binary installer of the XML-SIG package for Windows users: http://www.deja.com/getdoc.xp?AN=526763176 BioPython.org is announced: an effort devoted to facilitating and promoting the use of Python in bioinformatics http://www.biopython.org Damien Norton provides generic code to deal with the pesky problem of timeouts on sockets without using select(): http://www.deja.com/getdoc.xp?AN=526840052 Paul Dubois announces version 2 of PyFort, a tool to interface Python and Fortran. http://xfiles.llnl.gov/python.htm Reminder: The Python Conference is accepting paper submissions until the end of the month (with special interest in Zope and finance expressed from various quarters): http://www.python.org/workshops/2000-01/cfp.html http://www.deja.com/getdoc.xp?AN=525600398 ========================================================================= 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&format=threaded&showsort=date&maxhits=100&groups=comp.lang.python 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@neosoft.com> to subscribe. -- The Python-URL! Team-- == Cameron Laird http://starbase.neosoft.com/~claird/home.html claird@NeoSoft.com +1 281 996 8546 FAX -- ----------- comp.lang.python.announce (moderated) ---------- Article Submission Address: python-announce@python.org Python Language Home Page: http://www.python.org/ Python Quick Help Index: http://www.python.org/Help.html ------------------------------------------------------------