Dr. Dobb's Python-URL! - weekly Python news and links (Feb 28)

Fredrik Lundh effbot@telia.com
Wed, 01 Mar 00 18:58:19 GMT


Help wanted:
    Andrew Kuchling: Maintainer needed for the curses module
        http://www.deja.com/=dnc/getdoc.xp?AN=590053755

    David Ascher: Call for Patch for Borland compiler
        http://www.deja.com/=dnc/getdoc.xp?AN=588013997

    www.faqts.com: Python Knowledge Base
        http://www.faqts.com/knowledge-base/index.phtml/fid/199/lang

New mailing lists:
    ASP scripting with Python:
        http://www.asplists.com/asplists/asppython.asp

    Glenn Norton announces a small study group for Python newcomers:
        http://www.egroups.com/group/python-studies/info.html

More Python-related projects move to sourceforge:
    Numerical Python:
        http://numpy.sourceforge.net

    Bernard Herzog's Sketch:
         http://sketch.sourceforge.net

Alessandro Bottoni reviews John Grayson's 'Python and Tkinter
programming,' and likes what he sees:
    http://www.deja.com/=dnc/getdoc.xp?AN=588012707
 
Over at the software carpentry, Philip Wadler discusses how to
'embed' a make-like tool in Python:
    http://software-carpentry.codesourcery.com/lists/sc-discuss/msg00068.html

>From the newsgroup:
    Tim Peters: Fun with Lazy Streams
        http://www.deja.com/=dnc/getdoc.xp?AN=590446915
        http://www.deja.com/=dnc/getdoc.xp?AN=590532128 (errata)

    Tom Bryan: How to configure Emacs to use Python
        http://www.deja.com/=dnc/getdoc.xp?AN=587498993
        http://www.python.org/emacs/python-mode

    Tim Peters: Performance penalties when using nested functions
        http://www.deja.com/=dnc/getdoc.xp?AN=589614882

    Fredrik Lundh: How to do file locking on Windows
        http://www.deja.com/=dnc/getdoc.xp?AN=589808979

    Aahz Maruch: How to use threads (a simple threading example)
        http://www.deja.com/=dnc/getdoc.xp?AN=570016307

    Fredrik Lundh: extracting hyperlinks from an HTML document
        http://www.deja.com/=dnc/getdoc.xp?AN=588617613

    Tom Bryan: Comparing Perl and Python
        http://www.deja.com/=dnc/getdoc.xp?AN=588777654

    Jamie Zawinski: Tabs versus Spaces: An Eternal Holy War
        http://www.jwz.org/doc/tabs-vs-spaces.html

    Jay Graves wants to run Python on AS/400:
        http://www.deja.com/=dnc/getdoc.xp?AN=588863805

    Andreas Otto: proposes a 'token-stream compiler' for Python
        http://home.t-online.de/home/aotto/compiler-Paper.html
        (in german)

The annual GUI war came and went.  Highlights:
    Gerrit Holl: Python GUI Comparision
        http://www.nl.linux.org/~gerrit/gui.html

    Guido van Rossum: Tkinter vs. wxPython
        http://www.deja.com/=dnc/getdoc.xp?AN=589134497

    Peter Funk: Tkinter works with Tcl/Tk 8.3.0
        http://www.deja.com/=dnc/getdoc.xp?AN=589280553

    Lyle Johnson: Python bindings for the FOX user interface toolkit
        http://home.hiwaay.net/~johnson2/FXPy

    Fredrik Lundh: Some notes on Tkinter performance
        http://www.pythonware.com/people/fredrik/fyi/fyi03.htm

    Kevin Rogers: Where to find Tkinter documentation
        http://www.deja.com/=dnc/getdoc.xp?AN=588911772

    Fredrik Lundh: How to print stuff from Tkinter
        http://www.deja.com/=dnc/getdoc.xp?AN=588907043

    Kevin Cazabon: How to make sure Tkinter images stay on screen
        http://www.deja.com/=dnc/getdoc.xp?AN=589175052

    Robin Becker: Tkinter stubs for dummies
        http://www.python.org/pipermail/python-list/2000-February/046654.html

On the lighter side:
    Martijn Faassen explains why Tim Peters must be invisible:
        http://www.deja.com/=dnc/getdoc.xp?AN=588080148

    Will Ware: Phyththon misspelling contest
        http://www.deja.com/=dnc/viewthread.xp?AN=589151105

    Egbert Bouwman: a regular expression that matches all possible
    spellings of the word 'python' (from 'pitn' to 'phphphieyythonne'):
        http://www.deja.com/=dnc/getdoc.xp?AN=589804937

    ...and finally, Francois Pinard wonders what a 'killer app' really
    is.  Bill Gates has the answer:
        http://www.python.org/pipermail/python-list/2000-February/046773.html


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