Dr. Dobb's Python-URL! - weekly Python news and links (Nov 4)
Erik Max Francis
max at alcyone.com
Mon Nov 4 07:59:43 EST 2002
QOTW: "This newsgroup is friendlier than most. We only require 5 hours
of Googleing before you can ask a question! ;-)." Manuel M. Garcia
"Python resists making major library decisions preferring to leave it to
the individual, while Perl's 'first-through-the-gate-naming' wins the
standard." Emile van Sebille
"PyChecker is at revision 0.8.11, but don't let that fool you, it is very
usable and finds an amazing array of Python coding errors." Manuel M. Garcia
Articles and threads
Barry A. Warsaw talks about the Python mailing list/newsgroup
gateway problems which explain the erratic traffic for the past
week or so:
http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=mailman.1035997172.19952.python-list%40python.org
Michael Hudson suggests an approach (and then an improvement) for
doing interactive and iterative development, a sort of module
reload on steroids which uses metaclasses:
http://groups.google.com/groups?threadm=m2pttq8yaa.fsf%40python.net
A question about the future of Jython results in informative and
reassuring responses:
http://groups.google.com/groups?threadm=3dc18ae0%240%2484941%24e4fe514c%40dreader4.news.xs4all.nl
A question about "protecting" Python source from prying eyes leads
to a discussion of the pros and cons of deliberate obfuscation
vs. licensing:
http://groups.google.com/groups?threadm=aq3dsg%24l0s%241%40news.netpower.no
Software
SpamBayes, a Python-based spam filtering solution which uses
a Bayesian approach to analyzing incoming messages, has reached an
early stage where it can be used, via the command line, a POP3
intermediary, or Outlook 2000:
http://spambayes.sourceforge.net/
http://spambayes.sourceforge.net/applications.html
PyNassi, a program structure chart editor and debugger written
with and for Python, reaches version 1.2:
http://www.ingo-linkweiler.de/diplom/
Albatross is a small, flexible Python system for developing
stateful Web applications:
http://www.object-craft.com.au/projects/albatross/
PiP attempts to wed python with PHP, in the form of a Python
extension in PHP:
http://www.csh.rit.edu/~jon/projects/pip/
Jeremy Hylton announces the final releases of ZODB 3.1, an object
database for Zope that provides transactional persistence, and ZEO
2.0, a client-server system which uses it:
http://www.zope.org/Products/StandaloneZODB
http://www.zope.org/Products/ZEO
http://sourceforge.net/projects/zodb
Python-DSV is a module for importing and exporting delimiter
separated values, a generalization of comma separated value (CSV)
formats:
http://python-dsv.sourceforge.net/
Psyche is an attempt to combine the best qualities of Python with
those of Scheme (a Lisp-like language):
http://www.xs4all.nl/~yduppen/site/psyche.html
Resources
Ironically, at PHPCon, it emerges that Rackspace, which heavily
relied on PHP in getting off the ground, is converting a large
portion of their code to Python (as reported in Jeremy Zawodny's
Web log):
http://jeremy.zawodny.com/blog/archives/000282.html
The Python 2.3a0 development version of the documentation has been
updated:
http://www.python.org/dev/doc/devel/
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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
Brett Cannon continues the marvelous tradition established by
Andrew Kuchling and Michael Hudson of summarizing action on the
python-dev mailing list once every other week.
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
The online Python Journal is posted at pythonjournal.cognizor.com.
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welcome submission of material that helps people's understanding
of Python use, and offer Web presentation of your work.
*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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