Dr. Dobb's Python-URL! - weekly Python news and links (Jan 3)

[Grant Edwards]

    Niklas Frykholm announces preliminary work on the consequential
    problem of practical HTML (and SGML) parsing
	http://x56.deja.com/[ST_rn=ps]/getdoc.xp?AN=711302528

    Alex Martelli makes MediaPlayer comprehensible
	http://x73.deja.com/[ST_rn=ps]/getdoc.xp?AN=711305977
    exemplifies htmllib use
	http://x66.deja.com/[ST_rn=ps]/getdoc.xp?AN=711130173
    comments on use of classes and OOP 
        http://deja.com/=dnc/getdoc.xp?AN=708325609
    and announces gmpy 0.8 release for those in need of fast,
    high-precision arithmetic) 
        http://deja.com/=dnc/getdoc.xp?AN=709390524

    Raja S illuminates the history of exceptions pertinent
    to Python (those playing along at home should notice one
    follow-up corrects an out-of-place parenthesis)
        http://x56.deja.com/[ST_rn=ps]/getdoc.xp?AN=707412222
 
    Tim Peters demonstrates how he thinks about regular expressions
	http://x53.deja.com/[ST_rn=ps]/getdoc.xp?AN=711103603

    fgleeson reports on early experience with the Komodo preview
	http://x65.deja.com/[ST_rn=ps]/getdoc.xp?AN=710978812

    Jeff Epler places an 'xreadlines' patch on Sourceforge:
    xreadlines, inspired by xrange, permits a simple 'for' loop
    to iterate over the contents of a file "lazily", without
    reading the entire file at once.
        http://deja.com/=dnc/getdoc.xp?AN=706611199

    Amy Katherine announces the Ninth International Python
    Conference.
        http://deja.com/=dnc/getdoc.xp?AN=707166306

    Per Kraulis announces crng 1.1: Random-number generator
    extension types (minor upgrade) 
        http://deja.com/=dnc/getdoc.xp?AN=707664094

    Dave Cole announces Sybase module 0.11 (Sam Rushing release)
    released
        http://deja.com/=dnc/getdoc.xp?AN=707968946

    Bob Alexander starts an extensive thread on ideas for Python
    2.1 [though it's too late for 2.1, maybe for 2.2? -- ed]
        http://deja.com/=dnc/getdoc.xp?AN=708072070

    Final Call For Papers 2nd International Conference on eXtreme
    Programming and Flexible Processes in Software Engineering -
    XP2001.
        http://deja.com/=dnc/getdoc.xp?AN=708580378

    Russell Turpin posts ideas about caching name lookups.
        http://deja.com/=dnc/getdoc.xp?AN=708902425

    Pointers on sniffing HTTP traffic using proxies
        http://deja.com/=dnc/getdoc.xp?AN=710137006

    Jerry Spicklemire responds to a question about Python vs. PHP
    by noting several packages that "will allow you to do
    "PHP/ASP-ish" things with Python". 
        http://deja.com/=dnc/getdoc.xp?AN=709032569
    and "echuck" provides a pointer to webware: another PHP-like
    package 
        http://deja.com/=dnc/getdoc.xp?AN=709162756

    Raymond Hettinger starts another enhancement discussions with
    a new year's wish-list for Python
        http://deja.com/=dnc/getdoc.xp?AN=709868180


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      Python.org's Python Language Website is the traditional
      center of Pythonia
          http://www.python.org

      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://deja.com/group/comp.lang.python.announce

      Andrew Kuchling writes marvelous summaries twice a month of
      the action on the python-dev mailing list, where the future
      of Python is truly determined
	  http://www.amk.ca/python/dev

      The Vaults of Parnassus ambitiously collects 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

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