Python-URL! - weekly Python news and links (Mar 19)

Mar 19, 2001, 20:08 (0 Talkback[s])
(Other stories by Oleg Broytmann)

Date: Mon, 19 Mar 2001 09:20:40 -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 19)

Listen to Uche Ogbuji: "Type errors are not even close to the majority of those I make while programming in Python, and I'm quite certain that the code I've written in Python is much less buggy than code I've written in strongly-typed languages. Expressiveness, IMO, is a far better aid to correctness than artificial restrictions (see Java for the example of school-marm programming gone amok)."

Finn Bock announces Jython 2.1 alpha 1
http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-announce-list/2001-March/000713.html

Barry Warsaw releases Mailman 2.0.3
http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-announce-list/2001-March/000708.html

Aahz Maruch makes PEP 6: Patch and Bug Fix Releases
http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-announce-list/2001-March/000714.html

Moshe Zadka releases Numeric PEPs
http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-list/2001-March/033712.html

Ka-Ping Yee: pydoc.org: Python Documentation Online
http://www.pydoc.org/

Python Asynconronous HTTP Client
http://sourceforge.net/projects/asynchttp/

LUCI is a Universal Configuration Interface
http://jsautret.free.fr/luci/

American students are painfully unprepared for life after graduation (joke)
http://www.bbspot.com/News/2001/03/perl_test.html

The Python Web Services Developer, Part 2
http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/webservices/library/ws-pyth2/

Python Web Application Tools: Zope, Webware, Quixote, Jython
http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/python/2001/03/14/pythonnews.html

Scott Hathaway announces sql2xml
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/python-list/message/127724

Chuck Esterbrook: Using Mix-ins with Python
http://noframes.linuxjournal.com/lj-issues/issue84/4540.html

Robin Dunn makes _socket.pyd for Python 2.0 that includes the OpenSSL support
http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-list/2001-March/033801.html

Zope:
Zope 2.3.1 beta 2 released
http://lists.zope.org/pipermail/zope-announce/2001-March/000388.html
A lot of bug fixes and new Btree data structures; ZCatalog upgrade recommended

Hamish Lawson annonunces ZPT, a next-generation template technology
http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-list/2001-March/033834.html

Hot threads of the week:
This math scares me
http://groups.google.com/groups?lr=&group=comp.lang.python.*&safe=off&ic=1&th=26a09eb0f1b8ea4a&seekd=914722604
Einstein's Riddle
http://groups.google.com/groups?lr=&group=comp.lang.python.*&safe=off&ic=1&th=86109686c16ab447&seekd=915376443
Who's minister of propaganda this week?
http://groups.google.com/groups?lr=&group=comp.lang.python.*&safe=off&ic=1&th=13481eebd2054e26&seekd=914450748

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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

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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