Python-URL! – weekly Python news and links (Mar 5)

Date: Mon, 5 Mar 2001 06:51:10 -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
5)

Guido van Rossum releases Python 1.6.1 to fix GPL
incompatibility

http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-announce-list/2001-February/000682.html

On the Python2 side: Python 2.1b1 released
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/python-list/message/126320

New in this release: Nested Scopes are now optional, new tool
pydoc, full support for MacOS X, Cygwin, and RISCOS.

Tim Peters makes PEP 236: “Back to the __future__” and thus
starts hot discussions, proposals, counter-proposals and
counter-counter-proposals

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/python-list/messagesearch?query=PEP%20236%3A%20%20Back%20to%20the%20__future__

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/python-list/messagesearch?query=counter-proposal%20for%20PEP%20236

Michael Hudson publishes python-dev summary for 2001-02-15 –
2001-03-01
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/python-list/message/126217

Cameron Laird and Kathryn Soraiz: REGULAR EXPRESSIONS – Pulling
different threads

http://www.sunworld.com/unixinsideronline/swol-02-2001/swol-0216-regex.html

A Python role playing game! Play your favorite Python community
member! While said member watches! Travel through time! Save the
planet! Martijn Faassen proposes Python RPG (joke)
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/python-list/message/125822

Read March instead of January, of course

Oleg Broytmann takes a SpamCop perl script and rewrites it to
Python; fighting spam has never been easier!
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/python-list/message/125520

http://spamcop.net/fom-serve/cache/166.html

GNU Solfege is an eartraining program for X written in Python,
using the GTK+ and GNOME libraries
http://www.solfege.org/

Charming Python – Updating your Python reading list David Mertz:
Reviewing eight of the best known Python books

http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/library/l-cp12.html?dwzone=linux

David also reveals a code for full-text indexing and
searching
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/python-list/message/126371

Peter Norvig: Extreme Rapid Development
http://www.sdmagazine.com/articles/2001/0103/0103e/0103e.htm

Tom Schwaller: Scheduling with Python and Webware
http://www.python.de/docs/QuickStart.html

A.M. Kuchling: Quotation Exchange Language, or QEL, is an XML
language for exchanging collections of quotations
http://www.amk.ca/qel/
http://xml.coverpages.org/ni2001-03-03-a.html

Python Helps Disney Write a New Script
http://python.oreilly.com/news/disney_0201.html

Chris Gonnerman posts C source to a shadow module which contains
the functions lckpwdf() and ulckpwdf()
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/python-list/message/125999

Python must matter if it can be used with Ada, no? pyAda enables
programmers to write Python extensions in Ada 95 or extend Ada 95
programs with a Python interpreter
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/python-list/message/125989

http://pyada.sourceforge.net/

Federico Di Gregorio, the same man who brought to us PoPy
PostgreSQL driver, writes new Postgres driver and Zope Database
Adapter
http://initd.org/

PythonJournal is alive! It becomes interactive!
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/python-list/message/126159

Not all people are happy, though
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/python-list/message/126180

W3C: Python modules for RDF Tim Berners-Lee: By the way…
Python is cool!
http://www.w3.org/2000/10/swap/

Kirby Urner: Oregon curriculum network. Hitting two targets: OO
+ group theory (pedagogy). Python as intro language
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/python-list/message/126344

Barry Warsaw announces Mailman 2.0.2 – important privacy
patch
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/python-list/message/126373

Beware the southern pythons! (joke)
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/python-list/message/125616

Alex Martelli: I come to praise .join, not to bury it
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/python-list/message/126436

Zope:
Paul Tchistopolskii makes Zope Prouct API easy with Zope Beans
http://lists.zope.org/pipermail/zope/2001-March/084640.html

http://www.pault.com/zope_beans.html

Hot threads of the week:

CPAN functionality for python

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/python-list/messagesearch?query=CPAN%20functionality%20for%20python

Combinations of n Lists

http://groups.google.com/groups?lr=&group=comp.lang.python&safe=off&ic=1&th=275c44135cba024f&seekd=920137360

Collection interfaces

http://groups.google.com/groups?num=25&lr=&group=comp.lang.python&safe=off&th=34d9ba9d0f261c1a&ic=1&seekd=920732844

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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 twice a
month.
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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