Dr. Dobb's Python-URL! - weekly Python news and links (Sep 24)

Dean Goodmanson ponderor at lycos.com
Tue Sep 24 12:22:55 EDT 2002


QOTW:  "When something "is *EVERYWHERE*", how can it be "clearly VISIBLE"
at the same time?" - Alex Martelli 
    http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-list/2002-September/123526.html

"... [A]necdotally speaking I find Python development goes faster more as
a result of its very high readability than as a result of low loc/FP."
				 Peter Hansen     


Threads
    Another good summary regarding a Python to C++ conversion
        http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-list/2002-September/121194.html
    
    Insight into the Python shipped with Mac OS X 10.2 (Jaguar)
        http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-list/2002-September/122912.html
    
    Rob Andrews requests ideas for Python advantages on Linux, with many
    resources in response
        http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=cBci9.43632%24U7.15670948%40twister.socal.rr.com
    
    Where's shared memory functionality in the standard python distribution?
        http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-list/2002-September/123431.html
     
    Classifying Python's typing evokes question and discussion of terms
        http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-list/2002-September/123509.html
    
    Serial port programming tips, including: get a breakout box
        http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-list/2002-September/123523.html
    
    Mathematical perspecives on Programming, ended in the reality of references
        http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-list/2002-September/123526.html
    
    Getting started with Internationalization / il8n of a wxWindows app
        http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-list/2002-September/123656.html
    
    Reviews and perspective on core programming language books
        http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-list/2002-September/123676.html 
    
    Is Python 2.2.1 compatible with Tcl/Tk 8.4? Yes, but you must recompile
    Python.
        http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-list/2002-September/123770.html
    
    Discussion regarding Python as a compiled language
        http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-list/2002-September/123776.html
    
    Mark Hammond details the steps for MS Outlook plug-in, finishing with
    the Python connection
        http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-list/2002-September/124112.html
    
Misc.
    New Python-XML column  by Uche Ogbuji at xml.com. First article:
        http://www.xml.com/pub/a/2002/09/18/py.html
    
    O'Reilly offers Python Success Stories
        http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-announce-list/2002-September/001694.html
    
    Lightweight Languages Worshop 2002 (LL2) Saturday, November 9,
    2002 - Cambridge, MA, USA
        http://ll2.ai.mit.edu/
    
    3-day Python training session with Mark Lutz in Colorado, on October 28-30
        http://www.rmi.net/~lutz/oct02-longmont-class.html
    
    Brett Cannon's Python-dev summary for 2002-09-01 to 2002-09-15 
        http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-announce-list/2002-September/001695.html
    
    Call for Participation: UK Python Conference 2003, April 2-3 - Oxford.
        http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-announce-list/2002-September/001692.html
    
Software
    eGenix.com's mx Python extension packages mxODBC 2.0.5 and BASE 2.0.4
    versions released.
        http://www.egenix.com 
    
    CilentForm HTML forms handler 0.0.2a alpha released
        http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-announce-list/2002-September/001705.html
    
    PyReverse 0.4 reverse code generator (plus) released including bug
    fixes, pyvcg support and improved documentation
        http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-announce-list/2002-September/001702.html
    
    RuneBlade 0.3.2 release includes updates for wxPython 2.3.3.1 and
    2.3.2.1, aspect oriented support code, and optimizations and bug fixes
        http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-announce-list/2002-September/001701.html
    
    wxPython 2.3.3.1 released - Unicode and many other improvements for
    this wxWindows wrapper
        http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-announce-list/2002-September/001700.html
    
    Gordon McMillan releases version 5b4 of Installer
        http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-announce-list/2002-September/001699.html
    
    The bugfix-release, 0.5.1, of pyOpenSSL is out, and introduces basic
    PKCS12 support
        http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-announce-list/2002-September/001693.html
    
    Version 0.8.1 of the Python/XML distribution is now available, and
    should be considered a beta release
        http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-announce-list/2002-September/001691.html
    
    DocUtil's gets a DocFactory: a wxPython based "kind of integrated
    publishing environment for documentation"
        http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-announce-list/2002-September/001690.html
    
    pyblosxom is a weblogging tool written in Python and modelled after blosxom.
        http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-announce-list/2002-September/001689.html
    
    FontTools/TTX 2.0 beta 1, an Open Source Python library and toolkit to
    manipulate fonts.
        http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-announce-list/2002-September/001688.html
    
    
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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.
    editor at pythonjournal.com and editor at pythonjournal.cognizor.com
    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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