Dr. Dobb's Python-URL! - weekly Python news and links (Apr 23)
Steve Holden
sholden at holdenweb.com
Mon Apr 23 12:23:29 EDT 2001
With little further fanfare Guido announces Python Release 2.1:
http://groups.google.com/groups?ic=1&th=3e551cf46b3b876a
ActiveState announce ActivePython 2.1, with a package installer
to allow individual packages to be installed on demand:
http://groups.google.com/groups?ic=1&th=2a3453db51b8e19
Jason Tishler announces the availability of Cygwin Python 2.1:
http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2001-04/msg01074.html
Greg Chapman points out that using nested scopes in IDE applications
is not as straightforward as it might be, and receives assurances this
was known about in advance (but might have been flagged more loudly):
http://groups.google.com/groups?ic=1&th=f7b8a60bfc799ee8
Mark 'Kamikaze' Hughes announces an early pre-release of the UMBRA
role-playing game framework, and inspires a long discussion of open
vs. closed source and related licensing issues:
http://groups.google.com/groups?ic=1&th=22715916726b9b4b
Hernan Foffani produces the Python Shelf, combining many useful chunks
of Python-related documentation in one Windows HTML help file:
http://www.orgmf.com.ar/condor/pytstuff.html
Cayce Ullman announces release 0.7 of SOAP.py, a SOAP implementation
including a SOAP proxy and a SOAP server framework.
http://groups.google.com/groups?ic=1&th=8acd8e5bad6fc003
Cameron Laird features the benefits of the pydoc application:
http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/python/2001/04/18/pydoc.html
A development thread about class methods finds its way on to the general
newsgroup, offering insight into the detail of development decisions and
giving most of us reason to be grateful the python-dev list exists:
http://groups.google.com/groups?ic=1&th=55835007a03620ad
A thread comparing Tkinter and wxPython ends up revealing that at least
*some* people believe that "PyQt is free for Windows and Unix."
http://groups.google.com/groups?ic=1&th=684bc36cb8dd2138
Dave Cole provides a new release of his Sybase module which moves closer
towards compliance with the Python Database API, version 2.0:
http://www.object-craft.com.au/projects/sybase/
Thomas Heller explains how to start the debugger automatically when an
uncaught exception occurs:
http://groups.google.com/groups?ic=1&th=8dc6242615879373
comp.lang.python has one of its happily infrequent flamewars.
Unaccountably your compiler cannot find a single reference to quote :o)
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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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