From: David Ascher da@ski.org
“Almost lost in a sea of messages about programming in the dark
ages, we find some gems in this week’s Python universe:
g.j. andruk (a.k.a. Meow) releases a module to speed up reading
from files, using some of Rich $alz’s INN code. Expect 2x-5x
speedup on standard line-at-a-time usage. http://members.xoom.com/meowing/python/
An interesting discussion on the topic of making translatable
strings emerges. Thread starts at: http://www.deja.com/getdoc.xp?AN=525858204
Christian Tismer makes a binary installer of the XML-SIG package
for Windows users: http://www.deja.com/getdoc.xp?AN=526763176
BioPython.org is announced: an effort devoted to facilitating
and promoting the use of Python in bioinformatics http://www.biopython.org
Damien Norton provides generic code to deal with the pesky
problem of timeouts on sockets without using select(): http://www.deja.com/getdoc.xp?AN=526840052
Paul Dubois announces version 2 of PyFort, a tool to interface
Python and Fortran. http://xfiles.llnl.gov/python.htm
Reminder: The Python Conference is accepting paper submissions
until the end of the month (with special interest in Zope and
finance expressed from various quarters):
http://www.python.org/workshops/2000-01/cfp.html
http://www.deja.com/getdoc.xp?AN=525600398
Everything you want is probably one or two clicks away in these
pages:
Python.org’s Python Language Website is the center of Pythonia
http://www.python.org
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
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://www.dejanews.com/dnquery.xp?QRY=&DBS=2&ST=PS&defaultOp=AND&LNG=ALL&format=threaded&showsort=date&maxhits=100&groups=comp.lang.python
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