Dr. Dobb's Python-URL! - weekly Python news and links (Apr 16)
Steve Holden
sholden at holdenweb.com
Mon Apr 16 12:40:21 EDT 2001
Per Gummedal announces Python for the AS/400 has now reached Beta 0.6:
http://home.no.net/pgummeda
Gerard Häring announces PyAda now supports Windows and Solaris
platforms as well as Linux and FreeBSD:
http://pyada.sourceforge.net
Sean Reifschneider releases RPMs (source, and Red Hat 7.0 binary)
for the Python release candidate 2.1c1:
ftp://ftp.tummy.com/pub/tummy/RPMS/SRPMS/python2-2.1c1-1tummy.src.rpm
ftp://ftp.tummy.com/pub/tummy/RPMS/binaries-KRUD-7.0-i386
Fred Drake has updated the Python 2.1 development documentation
into final release form:
http://python.sourceforge.net/devel-docs/
A second release candidate is announced after a small but
significant bug is found in dictionary-handling code:
http://www.python.org/2.1/
Alex Shindich and Curt Hagenlocher follow up discussions on
interface specification in Python with a paper on the "Implied
Interface" design pattern:
http://www.shindich.com/sources/patterns/implied.html
Pete Shinners announces the 1.0 implementation of PyGame, an
SDL-based game authoring framework:
http://pygame.seul.org/
Questions are raised about whether ActiveState's Komodo violates
the Mozilla Public License. ActiveState seems to be OK in both
letter and spirit, but the thread assumes a life of its own:
http://groups.google.com/groups?ic=1&th=adeed2bd2eec0958
Commas in list comprehensions cause confusion, which takes a little
sorting out:
http://groups.google.com/groups?ic=1&th=edf0cf4c559318e0
Robert Johnson innocently expresses surprise at Python's namespace
flexibility, triggering a flood of responses (warning: this thread
includes the word 'floccinaucinihilipilification'):
http://groups.google.com/groups?ic=1&th=36898cb3c796116b
Robin Becker innocently enquires about defining abstract base
classes, and receives several suggestions:
http://groups.google.com/groups?ic=1&th=3f2bbdc09e263baa
The world fails to become any wiser about whether Aahz and
Tim Peters have actually met:
http://groups.google.com/groups?ic=1&th=1b5dcfa1b5125fbc
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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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