Dr. Dobb's Python-URL! - weekly Python news and links (Jan 2)

[Paul Boddie]

    After alphas, betas and release candidates, Python 2.2 "final"
    is available at long last.
        http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=mailman.1008968762.11408.clpa-moderators%40python.org

    Jython 2.1 was released recently, too.
        http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=mailman.1009809280.21269.python-list%40python.org      

    One of the "special edition" versions of Python 2.2 is the one
    available for OS/2+EMX.
        http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=mailman.1009405444.3732.clpa-moderators%40python.org

    Binary packages do exist for less well-known operating systems - how
    about RISC OS?
        http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=mailman.1009109461.13764.clpa-moderators%40python.org

    Back in the "mainstream", MacPython 2.2 also quickly follows the
    main Python 2.2 release.
        http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=mailman.1009493112.645.clpa-moderators%40python.org

    And even the Sharp Zaurus gets Python 2.2c1, courtesy of Phil Thompson.
        http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=mailman.1008893605.27468.python-list%40python.org

    But will Python ever be available for Mono or .NET... or Parrot?
    Ron Stephens starts the new year with discussions on those themes.
        http://groups.google.com/groups?th=76afb2052769d3a7
        http://groups.google.com/groups?th=f02f9f01e9d30d78

    Stackless threads raise deep issues about coding style, concurrency
    mechanisms, and more.
	http://groups.google.com/groups?th=2442680516e6e52a
	http://groups.google.com/groups?th=597402650b88d48a

    Seemingly offering DTML-like templating, "Albatross is a small toolkit
    for developing highly stateful web applications."
        http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=mailman.1009405443.3730.clpa-moderators%40python.org

    How about client-side DHTML scripting in Python? A simple example is
    posted.
        http://groups.google.com/groups?th=c4ed88a3ad1fad59

    Zope's documentation gets critical attention. How easy is it to
    persuade one's boss that Zope is just the thing?
        http://groups.google.com/groups?th=1221d8b190933982

    Which of the Python books are most suitable for non-beginners?
        http://groups.google.com/groups?th=6d7debe411f805e2

    It may excite more than a few people that Bruce Eckel's long-awaited
    work "Thinking in Python" is progressing.
        http://www.mindview.net/Books/TIPython

    It's a real shock when Python seems to have gone missing. In classic
    comp.lang.python style, the discussion wanders into areas such as
    line endings, distutils and Red Hat.
        http://groups.google.com/groups?th=b91141f106be4c9d

    Indeed, which version of Python is commonly in use, and what's going
    on with Python 1.5.2 on Red Hat Linux?
        http://groups.google.com/groups?th=c2ff830ed213cc1f

    Ciphon 0.3.5 is available - it's a CPAN-like package
    installer/downloader for Python.
        http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=slrna2n8hb.5kj.ssthapa%40hepcat.telocity.com

    XML Matters in Python, at least at IBM developerWorks.
        http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/xml/library/x-matters15.html?open&l=968,t=gr,p=rpc

    For all those game writing types, PyGame 1.3 is released to make
    their lives even easier.
        http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=3C219665.1050804%40shinners.org

    Michal Wallace invites comments on his Python billing system.
        http://www.sixthdev.com/wiki.cgi/duckbill

    Andreas Jung announces PyStemmer - a wrapper around the Snowball project.
        http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=mailman.1008886382.30332.clpa-moderators%40python.org

    And the greatest minds of Python put their heads together to work out
    how old they all are.
        http://groups.google.com/groups?th=13768ad1bd18542


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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.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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