Python-URL! - 2000/06/05

by Andrew M. Kuchling - DejaNews: [1]

• It's finally public; Guido, Fred Drake, Jeremy Hylton, and Barry Warsaw are now working for BeOpen. http://www.pythonlabs.com/letter.html
• BeOpen ran an interview with Guido: http://www.beopen.com/features/interviews/rossum_index.html
• PythonWare announced the long-awaited release of PythonWorks 1.0. "PythonWorks is a rapid application development tool, designed for efficient development in Python. PythonWorks includes editors, a debugger, a user-interface design tool, project browser, deploy- ment tools, integrated on-line help, and a scriptable environment." http://www.pythonware.com/products/works/main1.htm
• Tim Peters showed how to implement the Dining Philosophers in Python: (see DN628752464)
• PyGreSQL v3.0, an interface to PostgreSQL, has been released. The new version implements the DB-SIG API. ftp://ftp.druid.net/pub/distrib/PyGreSQL.tgz
• Eric S. Raymond has been working on CML2, a replacement for the Linux kernel configuration system that's written in Python. http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/kbuild/
• Also, Raymond's article in the Linux Journal's Python supplement (the one with the controversial cover) is now available online: http://www2.linuxjournal.com/lj-issues/issue73/3882.html Unfortunately, most of the other articles aren't available: http://www2.linuxjournal.com/lj-issues/issue73/lstoc.html
• Other recent articles include an intro to PyQt: http://www.sunworld.com/sunworldonline/swol-05-2000/swol-05-qt.html
• And two introductory articles: http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/network/2000/06/02/magazine/python_first_language.html http://www.geeks404.com/programming/articles/prog.052600.intro_python.php