QOTW: "If you don't have time to learn another language, then you will likely never realize any of the benefits that Python, and learning Python, might have to offer." -- George Demmy "... -- doing nothing gracefully is important because there's sometimes nothing that needs be done <wink>." timbot http://groups.google.com/groups?q=g:thl477273455d&dq=&hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&selm=mailman.1026524959.15573.python-list%40python.org Michiel de Hoon gets help and works through making a windows installer on cygwin with distutils. http://groups.google.com/[email protected] Erik Max Francis announces the rebirth of Munch as empy 1.0, a system for embedding Python expressions and statements in template text (or any other unexecuted content) which replaced GNU m4 as a macro processor for its author. http://groups.google.com/[email protected] Raymond Smith releases Fnorb 1.2, which incorporates a number of changes required to make Fnorb a truly pure-Python based ORB including a pure Python IDL parser and pure Python CDR processing. It represents the first stable release of Fnorb since it was open sourced. http://sourceforge.net/projects/fnorb Guido van Rossum makes his Powerpoint slides for his keynotes addresses at EuroPython and OSCON available. http://groups.google.com/[email protected] Currencies and decimal places without saying the "f" word... http://groups.google.com/[email protected] Joost Jacob launches a Project to provide functions to turn a Python class into a server. http://groups.google.com/[email protected] Greg Ewing releases version 0.4 of Pyrex, a new language for writing Python extension modules. It lets you freely mix operations on Python and C data, with all Python reference counting and error checking handled automatically. http://groups.google.com/[email protected] Clark C. Evans releases pyYaml v0.21. YAML(tm) is a machine parsable data serialization format designed for human readability and is optimized for data serialization, configuration settings, log files, Internet messaging and filtering. http://groups.google.com/[email protected] David Levy asks for tips on SOAP.py and complex types information for input messages that require user defined types like the one for the new Amazon web service. http://groups.google.com/[email protected] A history unfolds when Philippe Gendreau asks "What is it with the '_'. I have seen it used in many places for what seems to be different purposes." http://groups.google.com/[email protected] Larry needs help getting UDP Multicast to work properly. http://groups.google.com/groups?threadm=PuF%8.650192$cQ3.104714@sccrnsc01 Dave Cinege announces proctitle, a stand alone module that manipulates the 'argv[]' (process listing) of the Python process allowing one to change the output seen from 'ps'. It is useful for hiding 'python', an argument that is a password, or update process information. http://groups.google.com/[email protected] Bobby Beckmann releases PyDumper, a GDB helper script that wraps GDB and is able to extract a stack trace and all relevant data (func args, globals, locals, instance vars) to help debugging apps that get stuck. http://groups.google.com/[email protected] Eugene Kim wants to make a p2p application in python like napster. http://groups.google.com/[email protected] Jay O'Connor wonders about writing a distributed Python framework, and will save the effort finding many to choose from. http://groups.google.com/[email protected] Markus von Ehr bumps into a known bug that causes the DOS-Shell to hangs when using python/Tkinter. http://groups.google.com/[email protected] Gerard A.W. Vreeswijk asks for a function wrapper a la Perl's Hook::WrapSub and gets a quick roll-your-own response. http://groups.google.com/[email protected] Remi Delon introduces freecherrypy.org providing Free CherryPy hosting. CherryPy is a Python-based tool for developing dynamic websites. http://groups.google.com/[email protected] Michael Hudson recalls, locates, then adapts this regular expression. Care to guess what it does? Or how it works? (helpful names changed) >>> def x(num, ex=re.compile(r"^1?$|^(11+?)1+$")): ... return ex.match('1'*num) is None http://groups.google.com/[email protected] ======================================================================== 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/. [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 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.* Previous - (U)se the (R)esource, (L)uke! - messages are listed here: http://www.ddj.com/topics/pythonurl/ http://purl.org/thecliff/python/url.html (dormant) or http://groups.google.com/groups?oi=djq&as_q=+Python-URL!&as_ugroup=comp.lang.python Suggestions/corrections for next week's posting are always welcome. [http://www.egroups.com/list/python-url-leads/ is hibernating. 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Python-URL! – Weekly Python News and Links (July 30)
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