Dr. Dobb's Python-URL! - weekly Python news and links (Jul 18)
Andrew M. Kuchling
akuchlin at mems-exchange.org
Tue Jul 18 11:05:52 EDT 2000
Mark Hammond reveals a fourth (nth?) Python implementation
on the horizon: "It has a compiler that generates native
Windows .DLL/.EXE files. It uses a runtime that consists
of a few thousand lines of C# (C-Sharp) code. ... Python
can subclass VB or C# classes, and vice-versa."
http://www.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2000-July/013019.html
The Python community has always had fun suggesting
enhancements to the language, but unless you follow threads
carefully, it can be hard to figure out the state of a
proposal. Barry Warsaw will be making the process more
formal and IETF-like, as described here:
http://www.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2000-July/013059.html
Huaiyu Zhu provides class calculus to help homesick Javans
and others involved in a particular kind of type correctness
http://deja.com/=dnc/getdoc.xp?AN=635109618
Edward K. Ream and Gordon McMillan show how to think about
generation of executables which embed Python, even in the
face of Win* peculiarities, Borland-Microsoft miscegenation,
backlinking, extensions, and related abstrusities
http://deja.com/=dnc/viewthread.xp?AN=647162382
Intellisens-ability: PythonWin capacity to use a key other
than TAB in AutoComplete traversal
http://deja.com/=dnc/getdoc.xp?AN=647146716
TheKompany.com releases the third distinct product called
"Visual Python". This one "is aimed at KDE and GNOME appli-
cation developers and allows you to easily embed Python as a
GUI enabled scripting language in your application"
http://x75.deja.com/getdoc.xp?AN=647020031
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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 center of Pythonia
http://www.python.org
eff-bot's complements this digest with his daily python url
http://hem.passagen.se/eff/url.htm
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
The Vaults of Parnassus ambitiously collects Python resources
http://www.vex.net/~x/parnassus/
Python FAQTS
http://python.faqts.com/
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
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