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

[Paul Boddie]

QOTW:  "[B]elieve it or not the big money is in tracking golf carts."  Larry

"Software basically sucks."  Tim Peters

"One less file is one less thing to get screwed up in the distribution,
IMHO."  Joshua Muskovitz


    Stackless Python returns with a 2.2 alpha release!
        http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=mailman.1012273506.27877.clpa-moderators%40python.org
    
    Brian represents Zope Corporation in releasing Zope 2.5.0.
        http://www.zope.org/Products/Zope/2.5.0/zope_250_release
    
    List comprehensions meet generators for the first time (in theory, at
    least) but nested scopes remain conspicuously absent.
        http://groups.google.com/groups?th=215e6e5a7bfd526
        http://groups.google.com/groups?th=df8b5e7709957eb7
    
    The dataflow.py toolkit provides dataflow-oriented programming in
    Python... using iterators and generators.
        http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=mailman.1012487991.6116.python-list%40python.org
    
    The print magazine "Py" is ready for preordering.
        http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=mailman.1012673764.20183.clpa-moderators%40python.org
    
    The O'Reilly Open Source Convention is looking for Python and Zope
    participants.
        http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=mailman.1012273503.27874.clpa-moderators%40python.org
    
    And the Ottawa Linux Symposium calls for papers.
        http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=mailman.1012273504.27875.clpa-moderators%40python.org
    
    The eGenix.com extensions (such as the popular mxDateTime and mxODBC)
    now have their own mailing list.
        http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=mailman.1012319341.25785.clpa-moderators%40python.org
    
    Herbrip is a Python implementation of an e-mail encryption system.
        http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=slrna5b46q.cfu.philh%40comuno.freeserve.co.uk
    
    PyReverse reaches 0.2.2 but, on the subject of CASE tools and class
    diagrams, is there anything in Python which understands XMI?
        http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=mailman.1012273502.27872.clpa-moderators%40python.org
        http://groups.google.com/groups?th=f061a3675d191d99
    
    SilverCity understands lexical details about a number of languages.
        http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=mailman.1012684745.32090.python-list%40python.org
    
    How can you find out which methods belong to an object? Use the
    inspect module, of course!
        http://groups.google.com/groups?th=38e85ff1b283359f
    
    Python is a useful tool in both vim and Emacs.
        http://www.vex.net/parnassus/apyllo.py?i=860466779
        http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=mailman.1012352629.27652.python-list%40python.org
    
    System administration often involves password management; for example,
    how can one change passwords on Windows?
        http://groups.google.com/groups?th=8cec4679a555ef35
    
    John DeWeese discovers Panda3D on SourceForge - it's a Python-driven
    rendering engine.
        http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=a3b24h%24kc6%241%40usc.ed
    

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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  
    Mygale is a news-gathering webcrawler that specializes in (new)
    World-Wide Web articles related to Python.
	 http://www.awaretek.com/nowak/mygale.html 
    While cosmetically similar, Mygale and the Daily Python-URL
    are utterly different in their technologies and generally in
    their results.

    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.org/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

    *Py: the Journal of the Python Language*
        http://www.pyzine.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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