Python-URL! - 2000/02/28

by Fredrik Lundh - DejaNews: [1]

• Help wanted: Item {Andrew Kuchling: Maintainer needed for the curses module} 590053755 Item {David Ascher: Call for Patch for Borland compiler} 88013997 Item {www.faqts.com: Python Knowledge Base} { http://www.faqts.com/knowledge-base/index.phtml/fid/199/lang} Item {New mailing lists:} Item {ASP scripting with Python:} { http://www.asplists.com/asplists/asppython.asp} Item {Glenn Norton announces a small study group for Python newcomers:} { http://www.egroups.com/group/python-studies/info.html} Item {More Python-related projects move to sourceforge:} Item {Numerical Python:} { http://numpy.sourceforge.net} Item {Bernard Herzog's Sketch:} { http://sketch.sourceforge.net} Item {Alessandro Bottoni reviews John Grayson's 'Python and Tkinter programming,' and likes what he sees:} 588012707 Item {Over at the software carpentry, Philip Wadler discusses how to 'embed' a make-like tool in Python:} { http://software-carpentry.codesourcery.com/lists/sc-discuss/msg00068.html} Item {From the newsgroup:} Item {Tim Peters: Fun with Lazy Streams} 590446915 {} 590532128 (errata) Item {Tom Bryan: How to configure Emacs to use Python} 587498993 {} { http://www.python.org/emacs/python-mode} Item {Tim Peters: Performance penalties when using nested functions} 589614882 Item {Fredrik Lundh: How to do file locking on Windows} 589808979 Item {Aahz Maruch: How to use threads (a simple threading example)} 570016307 Item {Fredrik Lundh: extracting hyperlinks from an HTML document} 88617613 Item {Tom Bryan: Comparing Perl and Python} 88777654 Item {Jamie Zawinski: Tabs versus Spaces: An Eternal Holy War} { http://www.jwz.org/doc/tabs-vs-spaces.html} Item {Jay Graves wants to run Python on AS/400:} 588863805 Item {Andreas Otto: proposes a 'token-stream compiler' for Python} { http://home.t-online.de/home/aotto/compiler-Paper.html} { (in german)} Item {The annual GUI war came and went. Highlights:} Item {Gerrit Holl: Python GUI Comparision} { http://www.nl.linux.org/~gerrit/gui.html} Item {Guido van Rossum: Tkinter vs. wxPython} 589134497 Item {Peter Funk: Tkinter works with Tcl/Tk 8.3.0} 589280553 Item {Lyle Johnson: Python bindings for the FOX user interface toolkit} { http://home.hiwaay.net/~johnson2/FXPy} Item {Fredrik Lundh: Some notes on Tkinter performance} { http://www.pythonware.com/people/fredrik/fyi/fyi03.htm} Item {Kevin Rogers: Where to find Tkinter documentation} 588911772 Item {Fredrik Lundh: How to print stuff from Tkinter} 588907043 Item {Kevin Cazabon: How to make sure Tkinter images stay on screen} 589175052 Item {Robin Becker: Tkinter stubs for dummies} { http://www.python.org/pipermail/python-list/2000-February/046654.html} Item {On the lighter side:} Item {Martijn Faassen explains why Tim Peters must be invisible:} 588080148 Item {Will Ware: Phyththon misspelling contest} 589151105 Item {Egbert Bouwman: a regular expression that matches all possible spellings of the word 'python' (from 'pitn' to 'phphphieyythonne'):} 589804937 Item {...and finally, Francois Pinard wonders what a 'killer app' really is. Bill Gates has the answer:} { http://www.python.org/pipermail/python-list/2000-February/046773.html} Deja 20000228 591189739 ############# Week 20000305 {Fredrik Lundh} Item {Major New Internet Portal Python Powered!} { http://www.filibuster.org} Item {On the edu-sig, David Scherer reminds us what CP4E (and Python) is all about:} { http://www.python.org/pipermail/edu-sig/2000-February/000098.html} { "CP4E *is* about computers. It's about the incredibly versatile machines sitting on all our desks, and (soon) in our pockets and around our wrists and in our clothing and cars and walls. It's about giving ordinary people some real control over those objects, the basic tools they will need to learn more about them, and the freedom to change or extend software that isn't right for them."} Item {New guidelines for patch contributions:} { http://www.python.org/patches/} Item {Python's CVS repository can be accessed via the web} { http://cvs.python.org/} Item {The edu-sig deals with everything related to using Python in education (except, perhaps, whether Python should remain case sensitive or not). Great discussions, this far:} 580836413 {} { http://www.python.org/sigs/edu-sig/ } Item {The import-sig will design a new architecture for the import facilities in Python (to better support embedding, archives, installers, etc):} 81571482 {} { http://www.python.org/sigs/import-sig/} Item {New Python consortium members that we forgot to mention in last week's "Python-URL!" ASTi:} http://www.asti.com BeOpen: http://www.beopen.com
• Danny Yee reviews Dave Beazley's Python Essential Reference: (see DN582232970) http://www.anatomy.usyd.edu.au/danny/book-reviews/h/Python_Reference.html
• How do I add subject lines to mails sent via smtplib? Q: (see DN582370142) A: (see DN582411857)
• What's wrong with execfile and local variables? Q: (see DN581374635) A: (see DN581374636) A: (see DN581843072)
• How do I best prepare a Python? (see DN581198835)
• New releases of plotting software (see DN581191243) (gdchart) (see DN582314930) (pxDislin)
• And to round off this week's URL, here's Python poetry (see DN581006163)