Dr. Dobb's Python-URL! - weekly Python news and links (Nov 28)

[Cameron Laird]

"Python tries to make difficult things easy while making
easy things stay fairly easy."  Paul Rubin

"Basically, I just sit there and read e-mail."

"... I think Python will be able to position itself as a
sort of Visual Basic-like language in the embedded space ..."

"... [W]hen I was dating my wife ... I had better things to
do with my time [than figure out PalmOS development tools]."
Guido van Rossum, <URL: http://www.linux-mag.com/2001-12/toc.html >

    Object persistence!  Application service!  Nanotechnology!
    Type information!  Docstring tricks!  Andrew Kuchling touches
    on all this, and more, in a too-little-known paper.
	http://www.amk.ca/python/writing/mx-architecture
	http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&frame=right&th=1417d223e1605c9c

    Ron Stephens and David Mertz publish reviews of over a dozen
    Python books.
	http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/linux/library/l-pbook2.html
	http://www.awaretek.com/book.html
    Martin Brown publishes a Python book for Perl users.
	http://cseng.aw.com/book/backcover/0,3828,0201734885,00.html

    Amos Latteier publishes an important tutorial on Zope Page
    Templates.
	http://webtechniques.com/archives/2001/12/latteier/

    While the venerable embedding-and-extending www.python.org
    documentation remains venerable, Kragen Sitaker and David
    Brady work out their own simple model for invoking Python
    from C.
	http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&frame=right&th=2402ef885355cd18

    Simon Cozens engagingly reports on a Python-pertinent conference.
	http://www.perl.com/pub/a/2001/11/21/lightweight.html

    Developers continue their search for the right handle(s) on
    XML, with recent emphasis on XSLT and parsing.
	http://www-105.ibm.com/developerworks/education.nsf/xml-onlinecourse-bytitle/BE1A7E60838F9F7686256AF400523C58?open&l=810,t=grx,p=pyx2
	http://diveintopython.org/

    Psyco progress fascinates the performance-obsessed.
	http://homepages.ulb.ac.be/~arigo/psyco/

    Jext acquires Jython scriptability.
	http://www.jext.org/


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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 continued Andrew Kuchling's marvelous tradition
    of summarizing action on the python-dev mailing list once every
    other week, into July 2001.  Any volunteers to re-start this
    valuable series?
        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/

    The old Python "To-Do List" now lives principally in a
    SourceForge reincarnation.
	http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?atid=355470&group_id=5470&func=browse
	http://python.sourceforge.net/peps/pep-0042.html

    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

    Tenth International Python Conference 
        http://www.python10.org            

    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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