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

Mon Mar 4 18:16:07 EST 2002

QOTW:  "What I find most amusing about com and .NET is that they are trying
to solve a problem I only had when programming using MS tools." -MaxM
    http://groups.google.com/groups?th=5e0d677b44e1e91a

"I suppose the fact that I get 20 emails in response to this question
is a sign, I know you couldn't get 20 positive third party
comparisons of VB to Python." -Stefan Kuzminski on Python advocacy
    http://groups.google.com/groups?th=f1ec289d99f2be87

"It COULD be a feature despite its creepy-crawly, six-legged,
hive-dwelling, crumb-eating nature."  -Raymond Hettinger on a
little-known Python quirk
    http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=a5v1r1%24aji%241%40bob.news.rcn.net

"As Zenin points out, Python uses objects to emulate closures, whereas
Lisp uses closures to emulate objects." -Martin v. Löwis
    http://groups.google.com/groups?th=7ae69320e338064a

    Martin v. Löwis revives and revises PEP 263.  It aims to treat Python
    code itself as Unicode data, enabling programmers to include Unicode
    strings in Python programs more naturally.
        http://groups.google.com/groups?th=ae0e91b136e81f15
        http://python.sourceforge.net/peps/pep-0263.html

    Gerhard Häring shows how to play an MP3 file using pygame.
    (Five lines of code.)
      http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=mailman.1015034704.11911.python-list%40python.org
        http://www.pygame.org/download.shtml

    Papercut is a multi-threaded news server written in Python.
        http://pessoal.org/papercut/index.php

    Decompyle converts Python byte-code back into Python source.
        http://www.goebel-consult.de/decompyle/

    TWAIN is an industry standard API for scanners, digital cameras, and
    other imaging equipment.  A new extension provides TWAIN for Python.
        http://twainmodule.sourceforge.net/

    JPE 2.0 is released.  JPE, the Java-Python Extension, allows
    CPython programs to call Java code - and vice versa.
        http://jpe.sourceforge.net/

    The UN Bot intelligently navigates Quake 2 game worlds.  The goal:
    human-like exploration behavior.  (Scriptable in Python, of course.)
        http://bots.ai-depot.com/UN-Bot.html

    py2html.py version 0.7 converts Python code to color-coded XHTML.
        http://www.egenix.com/files/python/SoftwareDescriptions.html#py2html.py
        http://www.egenix.com/files/python/py2html.py.html

    PyChecker checks Python programs for common mistakes.
    A mailing list has been created for PyChecker discussion:
        http://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/pychecker-list

    PyBoids - Flocking behavior fun in Python.
        http://www.dma.org/~tw/pyboids/

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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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