Python-URL! - Weekly Python News and Links (January 27)
Feb 02, 2003, 21:00 (0 Talkback[s])
QOTW: "I'm enjoying seeing python come out above perl and javascript."
Aaron K. Johnson
"It is a cardinal sin of GUI scalability to incorporate the state and
services of the software wholly in the user interface. You will go mad
from it eventually." Chad Netzer
http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=mailman.1042242859.24172.python-list%40python.org
Discussion:
Counting unique posters to usenet, including the script for doing
the count.
http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=b0v3dq%24bl4%241@bob.news.rcn.net
http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=b0v3n7%24cgs%241@bob.news.rcn.net
A discussion of the different Python packages for web develoment.
http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=j9bo2v0lo0qfngcfpqc3ooj0bo881lhuuh@4ax.com
How to find the element in a list of tuples with the greatest element
in some position.
http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=3e2d27c6%241_1@news.uni-bielefeld.de
Why there is no way to kill a thread in Python, and possible ways to
implement that feature.
http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=b0r1ds%2410s0fi%241@hades.rz.uni-sb.de
Announcements:
PythonCard 0.7 - a GUI construction kit for building cross-platform
desktiop applications.
http://pythoncard.sourceforge.net/
Free hosting for a few Python Open Source projects.
mailto:gomuz@looze.net
Sybase module 0.36pre3 - an interface to the Sybase relational
database system.
http://www.object-craft.com.au/projects/sybase/
Pyro 3.1 - the PYthon Remote Objects distributed object system written
entirely in Python.
http://pyro.sourceforge.net/
PyXML 0.8.2 - the basic tools erquired for processing XML data using
Python in one easy-to-install package.
http://pyxml.sourceforge.net/
The first Open Source Digest article in a column devoted to exploring
Python development. This article and the next cover SkunkWeb.
http://www.opensourcedigest.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=7
ctypes module - a python module to create and manipulate data c
types in Python. A new automated mailing list supports 0.3.5,
which works properly for Windows, Linux, and MacOS X (at least).
http://sourceforge.net/projects/ctypes/
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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://www.python.org/dev/summary/
Partial archives are at
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 Business Forum "further[s] the interests of companies
that base their business on ... Python."
http://www.python-in-business.org
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@pythonjournal.com and editor@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
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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