Dr. Dobb's Python-URL! - weekly Python news and links (Jun 4)

[Paul Prescod]

    The DISLIN data plotting library has reached the ripe old age
    of 7.5.  DISLIN isn't only usable from Python but what other
    language would you choose? <wink>
        http://www.dislin.de/

    It seems DISLIN is the topic of the week. Eric Hagemann covers
    it in his onging series on numerical programming in Python:
        http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/network/2000/06/02/magazine/numerically.html

    Maybe the topic of the week is more general than DISLIN. How about
    graphics? Michael Wallace describes how to generate graphics with
    Piddle:
        http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/python/2001/05/31/piddle.html

    You'll need a user interface to go with all of those pretty
    pictures.  PYUI is a user interface library written in 100%
    Python using PyGame!
        http://pyui.sourceforge.net/

    Games based on PyGame just keep popping up. Pygris is a falling
    blocks game written in Python. Next I predict, PyKombat, PyMario
    and PyQuake!  
        http://www21.brinkster.com/coonsta/pygris/

    How do you do serial IO in Python? Usual answer: It depends on
    your operating system. New answer: not anymore! XIO is a new
    cross-platform serial port driver for win32 and Unix.
        http://groups.google.com/groups?ic=1&th=dae9fa4438b9bc9a,3

    Python is great as a first programming language. Point your newbie
    friends at this article by Cameron Laird to convince them to stick
    their toes in the programming pool in the shallow end.
        http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/network/2000/06/02/magazine/python_first_language.html

    If Cameron didn't convince them, how about a review from an expert. 
    Ron Stephens describes a newbie's love affair with Python:
        http://groups.google.com/groups?ic=1&th=b5d4dd1f55a71d62,3

    PyChecker 0.5 has been released. PyChecker helps you find common
    bugs in python source code.
        http://pychecker.sourceforge.net/

    Chapter 5 of "Dive Into Python" is available. This chapter discusses
    Unit Testing.
        http://diveintopython.org/roman_divein.html

    Python is great at talking COM, CORBA, SOAP and now cross platform
    COM(XPCOM)! XPCOM  is the component system developed in the Mozilla
    project. Uche Ogbuji tells all:
        http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/components/library/co-pyxp1.html

    A variety of threads this week dived into arcana relating to
    numbers.  First there is recurring discussion of whether Python
    should adopt rationals, or decimal floating point and if so with
    what syntax:
        http://groups.google.com/groups?th=893850c4619119ea,109&ic=1

    Then there was an interesting debate on the nature of randomness.
    Bill Bell summarizes it well: "What is it about random numbers
    that provokes so much discourse". The thread starts here:
        http://groups.google.com/groups?th=3afeb4752bc8482a,62&ic=1

    Stephen Figgens takes a look at structured grep and its relationship
    to Python.
        http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/python/2001/05/23/pythonnews.html

    Frank Willison challenges the Python community to contribute to the
    Python cookbook:
        http://www.oreilly.com/frank/


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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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