Dr. Dobb's Python-URL! - weekly Python news and links (Mar 18)
Dean Goodmanson
ponderor at lycos.com
Mon Mar 18 09:36:41 EST 2002
QOTW: [Cross Platform Environment Tips] "I'd really recommend that
you vary quite frequently your tune selection (there's some good
Internet radio stations if your mp3 collection isn't large enough).
There's nothing worse than ruining a great CD because hearing it
reminds you of some awful project you worked on." - Dave Brueck
http://groups.google.com/groups?start=175&hl=en&ie=ISO-8859-1&oe=ISO-8859-1&group=comp.lang.python&selm=mailman.1015952421.10168.python-list%40python.org
"I'm pretty sure it's because the hobbits were all wiped out after
Sauron rose again and conquered Middle Earth, imposing the Unified
Mordorian Calendar system across much of the planet until the changes
made by Pope Gregory in 1582." - Peter Hansen
PEP 279 updates Enhanced Generators.
http://groups.google.com/groups?start=175&hl=en&ie=ISO-8859-1&oe=ISO-8859-1&group=comp.lang.python&selm=mailman.1015961402.6720.clpa-moderators%40python.org
Now version 1.6
http://python.sourceforge.net/peps/pep-0279.html
NormalDate 1.2 Released! Historical Calendar Discussion Ensues.
http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&ie=ISO-8859-1&oe=ISO-8859-1&threadm=Xns91D08815184B2svenaxelssonbokochwe%40212.37.1.234&prev=/groups%3Fnum%3D25%26hl%3Den%26ie%3DISO-8859-1%26oe%3DISO-8859-1%26group%3Dcomp.lang.python%26start%3D150
python 2.2 bug encounter
http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&ie=ISO-8859-1&oe=ISO-8859-1&frame=right&th=bd7e08291b334261&seekm=3C8E54C4.7030506%40livinglogic.de#link1
print to stream to multiple objects:
http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&ie=ISO-8859-1&oe=ISO-8859-1&threadm=mailman.1015962446.10330.python-list%40python.org&prev=/groups%3Fnum%3D25%26hl%3Den%26ie%3DISO-8859-1%26oe%3DISO-8859-1%26group%3Dcomp.lang.python%26start%3D175
Text Indexing and compression discussion
http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&ie=ISO-8859-1&oe=ISO-8859-1&threadm=mailman.1015976905.21484.python-list%40python.org&prev=/groups%3Fnum%3D25%26hl%3Den%26ie%3DISO-8859-1%26oe%3DISO-8859-1%26group%3Dcomp.lang.python%26start%3D150
A thread on an English thesaurus and dictionary for python is
particularly cool.
http://groups.google.com/groups?th=3c477063910da12e
Vinay Sajip proposes a standard logging module for Python.
http://www.red-dove.com/python_logging.html
http://python.sourceforge.net/peps/pep-0282.html
The secret labs releases Python Imaging Library, v1.1.3. "Version
1.1.3 adds distutils build scripts, improved resampling, screen
grabbing support (windows only), and more."
http://www.pythonware.com/products/pil/
Lars Gustäbel's tarfile module provides a zipfile-like interface
for reading and writing TAR files.
http://www.gustaebel.de/lars/tarfile/
David Mertz posts an early draft of his book in progress,
<i>Text Processing in Python</i>.
http://gnosis.cx/TPiP/
PythonCard 0.6.4 "includes walkthroughs to get you started with
PythonCard, an improved layout editor..., and new samples that use
SOAP and XML-RPC (Blogger API)."
http://pythoncard.sourceforge.net/
Mike C. Fletcher calculates sunrise and sunset times.
http://members.rogers.com/mcfletch/programming/sunriseset.py
Yet another conversation on Embedding Python in Server Side Web
Development, this one someone without early mention of Zope *or*
the recent ASP articles.
http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&ie=ISO-8859-1&oe=ISO-8859-1&threadm=23891c90.0203130444.3d8a1a3b%40posting.google.com&prev=/groups%3Fnum%3D25%26hl%3Den%26ie%3DISO-8859-1%26oe%3DISO-8859-1%26group%3Dcomp.lang.python%26start%3D150
Grant Edwards' question on packaging ends with an inspiring testimonial.
http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&ie=ISO-8859-1&oe=ISO-8859-1&frame=right&th=16b685ee49ea98f2&seekm=slrna8qr56.16e.grante%40tuxtop.visi.com#link19
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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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