Python-URL! – Weekly Python News and Links (January 27)

QOTW:  "I'm enjoying seeing python come out above perl and javascript."
        Aaron K. Johnson

"It is a cardinal sin of GUI scalability to incorporate the state and
services of the software wholly in the user interface.  You will go mad
from it eventually."  Chad Netzer
    http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=mailman.1042242859.24172.python-list%40python.org


Discussion:
    Counting unique posters to usenet, including the script for doing
    the count.
        http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=b0v3dq%24bl4%[email protected]
        http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=b0v3n7%24cgs%[email protected]
    
    A discussion of the different Python packages for web develoment.
        http://groups.google.com/[email protected]
    
    How to find the element in a list of tuples with the greatest element
    in some position.
        http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=3e2d27c6%[email protected]
    
    Why there is no way to kill a thread in Python, and possible ways to
    implement that feature.
        http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=b0r1ds%2410s0fi%[email protected]
    
    
Announcements:
    PythonCard 0.7 - a GUI construction kit for building cross-platform
    desktiop applications.
        http://pythoncard.sourceforge.net/
    
    Free hosting for a few Python Open Source projects.
        mailto:[email protected]
    
    Sybase module 0.36pre3 - an interface to the Sybase relational
    database system.
        http://www.object-craft.com.au/projects/sybase/
    
    Pyro 3.1 - the PYthon Remote Objects distributed object system written
    entirely in Python.
        http://pyro.sourceforge.net/
    
    PyXML 0.8.2 - the basic tools erquired for processing XML data using
    Python in one easy-to-install package.
        http://pyxml.sourceforge.net/
    
    The first Open Source Digest article in a column devoted to exploring
    Python development. This article and the next cover SkunkWeb.
        http://www.opensourcedigest.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=7
    
    ctypes module - a python module to create and manipulate data c
    types in Python.  A new automated mailing list supports 0.3.5,
    which works properly for Windows, Linux, and MacOS X (at least).
        http://sourceforge.net/projects/ctypes/

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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  
    Mygale is a news-gathering webcrawler that specializes in (new)
    World-Wide Web articles related to Python.
         http://www.awaretek.com/nowak/mygale.html 
    While cosmetically similar, Mygale and the Daily Python-URL
    are utterly different in their technologies and generally in
    their results.

    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

    Brett Cannon continues the marvelous tradition established by 
    Andrew Kuchling and Michael Hudson of summarizing action on the
    python-dev mailing list once every other week.
        http://www.python.org/dev/summary/
    Partial archives are at
        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/

    The Python Business Forum "further[s] the interests of companies
    that base their business on ... Python."
        http://www.python-in-business.org

    The Python Software Foundation has replaced the Python Consortium
    as an independent nexus of activity
        http://www.python.org/psf/

    Cetus does much of the same
        http://www.cetus-links.org/oo_python.html

    Python FAQTS
        http://python.faqts.com/

    The old Python "To-Do List" now lives principally in a
    SourceForge reincarnation.
        http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?atid=355470&group_id=5470&func=browse
        http://python.sourceforge.net/peps/pep-0042.html
     
    The online Python Journal is posted at pythonjournal.cognizor.com/.
    [email protected] and [email protected]
    welcome submission of material that helps people's understanding
    of Python use, and offer Web presentation of your work.

    *Py: the Journal of the Python Language*
        http://www.pyzine.com

    Tenth International Python Conference 
        http://www.python10.org            

    Archive probing tricks of the trade:
        http://groups.google.com/groups?oi=djq&as_ugroup=comp.lang.python&num=100
        http://groups.google.com/groups?meta=site%3Dgroups%26group%3Dcomp.lang.python.*

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