Dr. Dobb's Python-URL! - weekly Python news and links (Apr 9)

[Oleg Broytmann]

    The PEP 245 (interface syntax) discussion continues.  Read the
    whole PEP 245 thread, with contributions from the usual suspects:
        http://groups.google.com/groups?ic=1&th=5b041d67ae3ac578
    
    Clark Evans announces a preliminary implementation of PEP 246
    object adaptation), and asks for feedback:
        http://groups.google.com/groups?ic=1&th=ee0d71c4a5079d2
    
    The <effbot> points out the cause of a common problem in C extensions:
        http://groups.google.com/groups?ic=1&th=3f52eacbde25eaca
    
    Scott Hennesy announces PyTalk, a natural language understanding
    program, and another reader warns against careless installation:
        http://groups.google.com/groups?ic=1&th=707421e0a535507

    Guido joins the ActiveState Tech Advisory Board
        http://www.activestate.com/Corporate/Communications/Releases/Press985283476.html

    Neal Norwitz announces PyChecker, a source checking utility:
        http://pychecker.sourceforge.net/
    
    Paul Hughett announces BBLimage version 0.63, a collection of
    tools for processing volume images, especially medical images;
    it includes Pyvox, a Python extension for large multi-dimensional
    arrays:
        http://www.med.upenn.edu/bbl/publications_downloads/downloads/software.shtml
    
    Fred Drake announces significant (but not final) updates to the
    development documentation at:
        http://python.sourceforge.net/devel-docs/
    
    Python 2.0 ports to OS/2 using the EMX+GCC compiler and runtime:
        http://groups.google.com/groups?ic=1&th=2d5554aaa38473d3
    
    mxODBC bugfix release 2.0.1 arrives:
        http://groups.google.com/groups?ic=1&th=4b9ad71224f12b5b
    
    Ben Wolfson and others outline approaches to function composition
    (building one function from two others):
        http://groups.google.com/groups?ic=1&th=7e92535f0add094f
    
    For those having problems installing MySQL, a recipe for Windows
    installation without tears:
        http://groups.google.com/groups?group=comp.lang.python.*&seld=904905643&ic=1
    
    In a long thread on names and values, Alex (the martellibot) Martelli
    enlightens us about object references and name binding:
        http://groups.google.com/groups?ic=1&th=b23316bafee7e99d#905775629
    
    NOT STRICTLY Python, but possibly useful. Tim Roberts learns that
    character set matters on web forms:
        http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&lr=&safe=off&ic=1&th=978cb032e373eee9


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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 trick of the trade:
	  http://groups.google.com/groups?oi=djq&as_ugroup=comp.lang.python&num=100


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