Python-URL! - weekly Python news and links (Mar 12)
Mar 12, 2001, 20:27 (0 Talkback[s] )
(Other stories by Oleg Broytmann )
Date: Mon, 12 Mar 2001 07:35:32 -0600 (CST)
From: Oleg Broytmann phd@phd.russ.ru
To: Dr.Dobb's.Python-URL.distribution@starbase.neosoft.com
Newsgroups: comp.lang.python
Subject: Dr. Dobb's Python-URL! - weekly Python news and links (Mar
12)
Guido van Rossum announces Python Software Foundation
http://www.prnewswire.com/cgi-bin/stories.pl?ACCT=104&STORY=/www/story/03-06-2001/0001442061&EDATE=
Reports from The Ninth International Python Conference
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/python-list/message/127037
http://www.amk.ca/python/writing/ipc9.html
http://weblogs.userland.com/zopeNewbies/2001/03/06
http://python.oreilly.com/news/pythonday1_0301.html
http://python.oreilly.com/news/pythonday2_0301.html
http://python.oreilly.com/news/pythonday3_0301.html
wxPython = Python + wxWindows
http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/library/l-wxpy/?dwzone=linux?open&l=252,t=gr,p=wxPython
PythonWare PY20 distribution for Windows and Linux (rpm)
Includes PythonWare Image Library 1.1.1, PythonWare Sound Toolkit,
Tkinter 8.3.2, SOAPLIB, XML-RPC, and more
http://www.pythonware.com/products/python/index.htm
PyTREX is a Python implementation of TREX, an XML schema
language
http://pytrex.sourceforge.net/
D'Arcy J.M. Cain merges PyGreSQL into PostgreSQL tree
http://www.postgresql.org/mhonarc/pgsql-announce/2001-03/msg00001.html
Andy Dustman moves MySQLdb to SourceForge
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=70801
Rafal Smotrzyk posts python cgi syntax highlighter
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/python-list/message/126756
Jean-Luc Fontaine releases tclpython-2.0
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/python-list/message/127517
David Mertz annonces preliminary releases of sql2dtd.py and
sql2xml
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/python-list/message/127572
Zope:
Security alert and hotfix
http://lists.zope.org/pipermail/zope-announce/2001-March/000385.html
Hot threads of the week:
The demise of 'from foo import *' and its implications
http://groups.google.com/groups?lr=&group=comp.lang.python.*&safe=off&ic=1&th=239b31b698e5477f&seekd=918627400
I come to praise .join, not to bury it
http://groups.google.com/groups?num=25&lr=&group=comp.lang.python.*&safe=off&th=f5fa895f69b1b7c0&ic=1&seekd=918606249
Can Python replace Visual Basic? Should it?
http://groups.google.com/groups?lr=&group=comp.lang.python.*&safe=off&ic=1&th=68d5c86d6069b39f&seekd=917743230
Can anyone recomend a good intoduction to C
http://groups.google.com/groups?lr=&safe=off&th=555b54918c7bb1de&ic=1&seekd=918083102
learning C
http://groups.google.com/groups?lr=&group=comp.lang.python.*&safe=off&ic=1&th=8368cac8a98ecb9c&seekd=916271275
Urgent Question about Python licensing
http://groups.google.com/groups?lr=&group=comp.lang.python.*&safe=off&ic=1&th=1c57c3a40ae385a2&seekd=915908166
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
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 continues Andrew Kuchling's marvelous tradition
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/
Python Consortium emerges as an independent nexus of
activity
http://www.python.org/consortium
Cetus does much of the same
http://www.cetus-links.de/oo_python.html
Python FAQTS
http://python.faqts.com/
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://groups.google.com/groups?oi=djq&as_ugroup=comp.lang.python&num=100
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