Date: Mon, 5 Jun 2000 09:07:49 -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 (Jun 5)
It’s finally public; Guido, Fred Drake, Jeremy Hylton, and Barry Warsaw are now working for BeOpen.
http://www.pythonlabs.com/letter.html
BeOpen ran an interview with Guido:
http://www.beopen.com/features/interviews/rossum_index.html
PythonWare announced the long-awaited release of PythonWorks 1.0. “PythonWorks is a rapid application development tool, designed for efficient development in Python. PythonWorks includes editors, a debugger, a user-interface design tool, project browser, deploy- ment tools, integrated on-line help, and a scriptable environment.”
http://www.pythonware.com/products/works/main1.htm
Tim Peters showed how to implement the Dining Philosophers in Python:
http://x62.deja.com/getdoc.xp?AN=628752464.1
PyGreSQL v3.0, an interface to PostgreSQL, has been released. The new version implements the DB-SIG API.
ftp://ftp.druid.net/pub/distrib/PyGreSQL.tgz
Eric S. Raymond has been working on CML2, a replacement for the Linux kernel configuration system that’s written in Python.
http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/kbuild/
Also, Raymond’s article in the Linux Journal’s Python supplement (the one with the controversial cover) is now available online:
http://www2.linuxjournal.com/lj-issues/issue73/3882.html Unfortunately, most of the other articles aren’t available:
http://www2.linuxjournal.com/lj-issues/issue73/lstoc.html
Other recent articles include an intro to PyQt:
http://www.sunworld.com/sunworldonline/swol-05-2000/swol-05-qt.html
And two introductory articles:
http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/network/2000/06/02/magazine/python_first_language.html
http://www.geeks404.com/programming/articles/prog.052600.intro_python.php