Python-URL! for November 30, 1999

Date: Tue, 30 Nov 1999 15:20:50 -0600 (CST)
From: "Gordon McMillan" <<a href="mailto:gmcm@hypernet.com">gmcm@hypernet.com>

Noteworthy items this week from Pythondom:

Michael Stroeder announces pyCA-0.6.2 - a set of scripts and CGI-BIN programs written in Python for setting up and running a certificate authority using OpenSSL.
http://www.deja.com/=dnc/getdoc.xp?AN=553266414

Sean Reifschneider announces sockserv, a SMTP/NNTP/POP- like server module that makes it easy to create command / response type servers.
http://www.deja.com/=dnc/getdoc.xp?AN=553266413

Tony Ibbs announces v0.3 for his metalanguage for mxTextTools
http://www.deja.com/=dnc/getdoc.xp?AN=553266415
[Note: mxTextTools features an unusual and extremely fast parsing engine with an incomprehensible API; Tony has been slowly chipping away at making the interface non-hostile for a year or so.]

Mike Fletcher posts mandelbrot.py
http://www.deja.com/=dnc/getdoc.xp?AN=554408930 which shows off both wxPython and the Numeric extensions.

The subject of automatic garbage collection returns, this time with a practical cast: Fredrik Lundh on how it would be helpful:
http://www.deja.com/=dnc/getdoc.xp?AN=553393467

James Logajan on why he prefers the current approach:
http://www.deja.com/=dnc/getdoc.xp?AN=553396826

And finally, Bijan Parsia gives pointers to some modern GC implementations that should ease James' concerns.
http://www.deja.com/=dnc/getdoc.xp?AN=553786287

Tim Peters exposes his impractical bent, and shows that an apparently simple "lottery" game isn't so simple:
http://www.deja.com/=dnc/getdoc.xp?AN=552877307
and
http://www.deja.com/=dnc/getdoc.xp?AN=553253462

Everything you want is probably one or two clicks away in these pages:

Python.org's Python Language Website is the center of Pythonia http://www.python.org

Much of Python's real work takes place on Special-Interest Group mailing lists http://www.python.org/sigs/

Python Consortium emerges as an independent nexus of activity
http://www.python.org/consortium

Python To-Do List anticipates some of Python's future direction
http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/todo.py

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

Archive probing trick of the trade:
http://www.dejanews.com/dnquery.xp?QRY=&DBS=2&ST=PS&defaultOp=AND&LNG=ALL&format=threaded&showsort=date&maxhits=100&groups=comp.lang.python

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