Dr. Dobb's Python-URL! - weekly Python news and links (Feb 26)

Oleg Broytmann phd at phd.russ.ru
Mon Feb 26 16:25:12 EST 2001


    Jeremy Hylton updates PEP 227 (static scoping)
        http://groups.yahoo.com/group/python-list/message/124981
    and thus starts a hot discussion
        http://groups.yahoo.com/group/python-list/messagesearch?query=Update%20to%20PEP%20227%20%28static%20scoping%29
    Guido van Rossum announces nested scopes in 2.1 and 2.2 optional
        http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-list/2001-February/030681.html
    
    David Mertz announces an oops on gnosis.cx/publish/
    and moves to new hosting
        http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-list/2001-February/030550.html
    David Mertz: Charming Python: Getting version 2.0
        http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/library/l-py20.html?dwzone=linux
    David Mertz: Functional Programming in Python
        http://gnosis.cx/publish/programming/charming_python_13.txt
    
    Philipp wrapps www.graphviz.org's 'dot' language in Python
        http://groups.yahoo.com/group/python-list/message/124396
    
    python powered mp3 management
        http://mpy3.thelocust.org/
    
    Thomas Heller shows how to enter a (possibly dotted) python
    module name in the Emacs' minibuffer
        http://groups.yahoo.com/group/python-list/message/124525
    
    gnome-python 1.4.0: Updated to work with the latest GtkHTML
        http://www.daa.com.au/~james/gnome/
    
    Jerome Alet annonces new version of JAXML XML generator
        http://groups.yahoo.com/group/python-list/message/124939
    
    Warren Postma announces event module 1.0 for better threading
        http://groups.yahoo.com/group/python-list/message/124830
    
    Barry Warsaw updates PEP 232, Function Attributes
        http://groups.yahoo.com/group/python-list/message/124789
    
    Amos Latteier announces Zope Directions Roadmap
        http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-announce-list/2001-February/000673.html
    Stephen Figgins: Zope's New Roadmap
        http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/python/2001/02/22/pythonnews.html
    
    Jean-Luc Fontaine creates tclpython that embeds python into tcl
        http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-list/2001-February/030652.html
    
    Lars Marius Garshol wraps James Clark's SP SGML parser
        http://www.garshol.priv.no/download/software/pysp/
    
    Norbert Klamann creates a working setup.py for DCOracle 1.3.2
        http://groups.yahoo.com/group/python-list/message/124940
    
    Marc-Andre Lemburg launches eGenix and announces that Extensions for Python 2.0
        http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-announce-list/2001-February/000679.html
    
    Computer scientists at Endeavors Technology have successfully
    developed a highly optimized, open source port of Python to the
    Palm OS(R) platform to stimulate interest in creating Python-based
    applications for Palm(TM) handheld computers and other devices that
    use the Palm operating system.
        http://sf-web1.businesswire.com/cgi-bin/f_headline.cgi?day0/210540113&ticker=
        http://www.endeavors.com/pippy/
    
    Chris Gonnerman posts an example code explaining how to extend
    Python in C/C++
        http://groups.yahoo.com/group/python-list/message/125374
    
    Uche Ogbuji announces "The Python Web services developer" column
        http://groups.yahoo.com/group/python-list/message/125405
    
    Mark Hammond explains how to ensures the thread-lock is released
    when the function is called (SWIG)
        http://groups.yahoo.com/group/python-list/message/125473
    
    Sean Reifschneider comtinues to think about CPAN functionality
    for python
        http://groups.yahoo.com/group/python-list/message/125510
    
    
    Zope
    ----
    
    Brian Lloyd announces SECURITY alert and hotfix release
        http://lists.zope.org/pipermail/zope/2001-February/084053.html
    
    Michel Pelletier announces Zope Book is now in public CVS
        http://lists.zope.org/pipermail/zope/2001-February/084061.html
    
    
    Hot threads of the week
    -----------------------
    
    locking files
        http://groups.google.com/groups?lr=&safe=off&ic=1&th=e046814cf6e52ae3&seekd=917102346
    Alternative iterator syntax
        http://groups.google.com/groups?lr=&safe=off&ic=1&th=f90597b5cb186d16&seekd=917023515
    Comparison with Ruby
        http://groups.google.com/groups?lr=&safe=off&ic=1&th=105b832cf34cd872&seekd=916928222
    Rounding Question
        http://groups.google.com/groups?lr=&safe=off&ic=1&th=d054718b0b4ad260&seekd=916921447
    import statement is case sensitive
        http://groups.google.com/groups?lr=&safe=off&ic=1&th=24e0f1d3ddcb2ac5&seekd=916916940
    An alternative approach to bound methods
        http://groups.google.com/groups?lr=&safe=off&ic=1&th=307b2dd2b5d6bc3f&seekd=916902767


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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 twice a
      month.
	  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/

      Python Consortium emerges as an independent nexus of activity
          http://www.python.org/consortium

      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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