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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or
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