Date: Mon, 10 Jul 2000 09:34:20 -0500 (CDT)
From: Andrew M. Kuchling akuchlin@mems-exchange.org
Newsgroups: comp.lang.python
Subject: Dr. Dobb’s Python-URL! – weekly Python news and links (Jul
10)
Python 1.6 has been renumbered Python 2.0, and Guido explains
why: “While Python users have grown fond of Python’s exceedingly
small version number increments, those low version numbers make
parts of the rest of the world think that Python is barely out of
its first alpha test. Especially enterprise customers are often
fearful of anything that’s version 1.x!” Ah, marketing!
http://www.pythonlabs.com/tech/python2.html
Garry Hodgson asks for tutorial suggestions for IPC9:
http://www.deja.com/getdoc.xp?AN=639730851&fmt=text
An alpha version of a Palm Pilot port of Python-1.5.2+ is
announced: (Presumably 1.5.2+ means 1.5.2 plus some of the changes
from the CVS tree) “This release includes the modified Python
source and tools for creating Palm applications from Python
modules. … We emphasize that this is an alpha release and is
deficient in many respects.”
http://www.isr.uci.edu/projects/sensos/python/.
Les Smithson releases Pymqi, a wrapper for IBM’s Messaging &
Queueing middleware
http://www.hare.demon.co.uk/pymqi/pymqi.html
Eric Lee Green discusses his experience with PostgresQL:
http://www.deja.com/getdoc.xp?AN=640103959&fmt=text
Richard Offer posts slashbox.py, “a quick hack of a class to get
and format news stories from a number of sites.”
http://www.deja.com/getdoc.xp?AN=644098458.1&fmt=text
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
eff-bot’s complements this digest with his daily python url
http://hem.passagen.se/eff/url.htm
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
The Vaults of Parnassus ambitiously collects Python
resources
http://www.vex.net/~x/parnassus/
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://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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