QOTW (QOTM?): "It's easier to write appropriate code from scratch in
Python than to figure out how to use a package profligate enough to
contain canned solutions for all common and reasonable use cases." timbot
"I've learned from being in this business at least as long as many of you
have, that when a project appears designed to fail, it probably was."
Scott M. Fulton, III
"I did something in java and php (finish and working) and now I rewrite
it in python. Ask me if you want to know more about it, it's in early
stage, but very promising when I compare it to what I did in java."
-- William Dodé on comp.lang.py
There are several alternatives for binding SNMP and python
http://groups.google.com/groups?threadm=3d329ac0.330042218@news.skynet.be
Juliano Freitas wants a horizontal line to separate the frames in a
tkinter application
http://groups.google.com/groups?threadm=mailman.1026764423.13659.python-list@python.org
Steven Knight announces the release of SCons.0.8, a software
construction tool (build tool, or make tool) written in Python.
http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=mailman.1026770363.9080.python-list@python.org
With testing, John Hunter discovers that most of the total execution
time of his code is spent clearing a map from memory, after all the
lines of the script have executed...
http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=m28z4bn227.fsf@mother.paradise.lost
...and Tim Peters provides the solution with pymalloc.
http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=mailman.1026854126.29165.python-list@python.org
David Mertz announces Gnosis (XML) Utils 1.0.3, a utility set that
contains a number of Python libraries, most related to working with XML.
http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=mailman.1027012380.3786.python-list@python.org
Paul Rubin gets suggestions for "...a Python-callable HTML DOM parser?
I mean a serious one that tries to understand the crappy malformed out
there in the real-world Web, the way a browser does."
http://groups.google.com/groups?threadm=7xwursj0a4.fsf@ruckus.brouhaha.com
Kevin Altis release PythonCard 0.6.8, a GUI construction kit for
building cross-platform desktop applications on Windows, Mac OS X,
and Linux.
http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=7cmZ8.447$KY5.70441@news.uswest.net
Sarayu Balu is looking for python for the Sharp Zaurus.
http://groups.google.com/groups?threadm=1026919964.826307@irys.nyx.net
Mike C. Fletcher releases SimpleParse 2.0.0a4, a BSD-licensed
Python package providing a simple parser generator for use with
the mxTextTools text-tagging engine.
http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=mailman.1027016222.3970.python-list@python.org
Dinu Gherman announces Pycotin 0.1 (Python Cocoa Test Interface).
Pycotin is a Cocoa GUI to Steve Purcell's PyUnit test framework
on Mac OS X.
http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=20020719131144181%2B0200@news.t-online.de
David LeBlanc tells that "Mastering Regular Expressions 2nd Ed."
claims extensive Python re coverage.
http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=mailman.1027121729.1720.python-list@python.org
Paul finds out about changing maximum recursion depth and alternatives.
http://groups.google.com/groups?threadm=ZCq_8.8646$_C2.688083@newsread2.prod.itd.earthlink.net
Jeff Epler shows a way to create unsafe_for_unpickling pickles in
older versions of python.
http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=mailman.1026910105.2112.python-list@python.org
Syver Enstad asks about tutorials and how to get started with i18n.
http://groups.google.com/groups?threadm=uy9cbtt05.fsf@online.no
Trent Mick responds to questions about getting SOAP working with
Activestate Python, ZSI 1.1 and PyXML 0.7.
http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=mailman.1026852026.32019.python-list@python.org
John Hunter posts an example of using pygoogle to query google
directly from python code.
http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=m2bs96icbv.fsf@mother.paradise.lost
Sam Penrose finds a performance boost for pickle performance
on larger objects.
http://groups.google.com/groups?threadm=mailman.1026940226.16076.python-list@python.org
Fredrik Lundh provides a snippet showing the use of the standard
module pulldom in xml.dom to create something similar to XML::Twig.
http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=QfQZ8.16550$p56.5392725@newsb.telia.net
Anthony Tuininga releases cx_Oracle, a Python extension module that
allows access to Oracle and largely conforms to Python db API 2.0.
http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=mailman.1026937026.31731.clpa-moderators@python.org
Martin Gebert has written a python code beautifier and a small KDE
frontend for source-highlighting.
http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=mailman.1026937031.32146.clpa-moderators@python.org
Erik Max Francis releases CAGE 1.1 -- Cellular automata engine in
Python. CAGE is a fairy generic and complete cellular automaton
simulation engine in Python.
http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=3D3B94B1.F12E4A9C@alcyone.com
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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
Michael Hudson continued Andrew Kuchling's marvelous tradition
of summarizing action on the python-dev mailing list once every
other week, into July 2001. Any volunteers to re-start this
valuable series?
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 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/.
editor@pythonjournal.com and editor@pythonjournal.cognizor.com
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
Links2Go is a new semi-automated link collection; it's impressive
what AI can generate
http://www.links2go.com/search?search=python
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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