Dr. Dobb's Python-URL! - weekly Python news and links (May 21)

[Paul Prescod]

    There are many ways to walk around tree structures in Python. 
    A recent thread touches on iterators, generators, file systems
    and problems with os.path.walk:
        http://groups.google.com/groups?ic=1&th=1eeee266df16f55d,10

    Many posts recently have compared Python with Lisp. With tongue 
    firmly in cheek, William Annis announces PyLisp as the perfect
    merger:
        http://groups.google.com/groups?ic=1&selm=jty9rxmfwm.fsf%40wazor.biostat.wisc.edu

    Zope may not officially be supported on Python 2.1 yet but 
    early experimenters have found that Zope and Python 2.1 are 
    mostly compatible:
        http://groups.google.com/groups?ic=1&th=609ac7eb0a7dc7be

    Python is fairly stable but what would happen to your 
    Python application if an asteroid hit the earth? Python 
    Enhancement Proposal 9001 addresses this problem:
        http://groups.google.com/groups?q=Asteroid+Impact+Resistance+Python

    The Python 2.0 quick reference has been updated and a 2.1 
    version is forthcoming:
        http://www.brunningonline.net/simon/python/quick-ref2_0.html

    PySgrep allows powerful searching in structured text files 
    such as XML, SGML and HTML documents:
        http://groups.google.com/groups?q=PySgrep

    comp.lang.python may be the only place on Usenet where you 
    can have a civil discussion of the relative merits of 
    operating systems. Which is best for Python hacking?
        http://groups.google.com/groups?ic=1&th=c899098cda2930ea,28

    Decimal.py is a module implementing the decimal arithmetic 
    ANSI standard X3.274-1996. As they say, Decimal math is where
    the money is...
        http://groups.google.com/groups?q=Decimal.py

    Chess.py isn't a Python program that plays chess. Rather 
    it is a program that tells you whether your opponent
    is *cheating* at chess.
        http://www.alcyone.com/pyos/chess/

    Running Python code on the client side of a web browser will 
    not become really easy until every browser and OS ships with 
    Python. Still, a recent thread highlights some 
    techniques for client-side Python.
        http://groups.google.com/groups?ic=1&th=657a7d5601163db3,7

    PyVTK is a new module that allows for manipulating 
    Visualization Toolkit files in Python:
        http://cens.ioc.ee/projects/pyvtk/

    Talk about portability. On the one hand, Python runs on 
    palm computers. On the other, it also runs on AS/400's!
        http://home.no.net/pgummeda/


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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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