Dr. Dobb's Python-URL! - weekly Python news and links (Apr 30)

Steve Holden sholden at holdenweb.com
Mon Apr 30 14:21:21 EDT 2001


Public Relations ...
    Mike Orr's write up of Python 9 is published in Linux Journal:
        http://noframes.linuxjournal.com/articles/conversations/0024.html
    
    Peter Liljenberg, one of Pointless Window Manager's developers,
    is interviewed by LinuxPlanet:
        http://www.linuxplanet.com/linuxplanet/opinions/3267/1/
    
Announcements ...
    Chris Gonnerman announces an alternative readline for Windows:
        http://groups.google.com/groups?ic=1&th=5f3aa9b9ba3bba35
    
    Jason Mastaler announces an OSI-certified Tagged Message Delivery Agent
    for qmail, to reduce the amount of spam you receive (but remains silent
    about eggs, chips and beans):
        http://tmda.sourceforge.net/
    
    Marc-André Lemburg announces version 0.2.0 of mxNumber, with support
    for rational types:
        http://groups.google.com/groups?ic=1&th=cf082df25bdad48c
    as well as a new packaging of mxBASE and mxCommercial for all
    current Python releases:
        http://www.lemburg.com/files/python/
    
    Frederic Giacometti announces the beta release of the Java-Python
    extension:
        http://groups.google.com/groups?ic=1&th=7aa72d42c08a7dbc
    
    Pearu Peterson announces an initial release of PyGiNaC, a
    Python interface to a symbolic computation package:
        http://cens.ioc.ee/projects/pyginac/
    
Discussions ...
    The group discussed various ways to slice up a matrix represented
    as a list of tuples:
        http://groups.google.com/groups?ic=1&th=1b328f23e3a3d40
    
    Fredrik Lundh comes up with a way to apply standard exception
    handling to all methods of a class:
        http://groups.google.com/groups?ic=1&th=650d06497eb83884
    
    Brandon J Van Every's innocent question about function pointers
    triggers a barrage of suggestions about things Python can do with
    functions that other languages cannot:
        http://groups.google.com/groups?ic=1&th=31b839b29e76a3fc
    
    A talk about SmallScript reveals the prospect that Python might
    in the far future compile for a more general virtual machine (see
    message 5 in the thread to finf the original poster's reference):
        http://groups.google.com/groups?ic=1&th=b121faa695c8b6fa
    
    Andrew MacIntyre reminds us of one way to get XML parsers:
        http://groups.google.com/groups?ic=1&th=26b00b08425b8fe9
    
    Jeff Shipman elicits many responses about how to print everything
    in a list, mostly without a print statement:
        http://groups.google.com/groups?ic=1&th=e2cb1c655d3aa7b4
    

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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  

    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

    Michael Hudson continues Andrew Kuchling's marvelous tradition
    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.de/oo_python.html

    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 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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