Python-URL! - 2000/04/03

by Fredrik Lundh - DejaNews: [1]

The Software Development conference in San Jose turned out to be a major Python event.

• The conference site: http://www.sdexpo.com/
• Guido's keynote covered the CP4E project. The slides haven't been posted yet, but they were based on this classic talk: http://www.python.org/doc/essays/ppt/acm-cp4e/index.htm
• Some media coverage. Like it or not, but Python is hot! :-) http://www.ddj.com/articles/2000/0050/0050toc.htm http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/network/2000/03/30/softwaredev.html
• Lots of great talks about Python. Among others, David Ascher talked about JPython and popular tools and extensions: http://www.activestate.com/sd2000.htm

Activities:

• Colorado Linux Info Quest 2000: Python and Zope BOF Sessions http://www.thecliq.org/bofs.html
• UCSC Extension: Python Programming Course corrected link http://www.ucsc-extension.edu/knowledge_is_timeless/qd/softlist.taf?function=detail&X_Number=X444.3

Releases:

• Python 1.6 alpha 1 is here! (first alpha, very rough in places) http://www.python.org/1.6/
• Guido tells us what's in the new release, sort of. Note the posting date (for the true story, see the above site): (see DN605330122)
• Christian Tismer: Stackless Python 1.1 and Continuations 0.8 (see DN603584578)
• Fred Drake: Updated Python 1.5.2 Documentation http://www.python.org/doc/
• Andrew Kuchling: Perfect Minimal Hash Generator http://starship.python.net/crew/amk/python/code/perfect-hash.html
• Ka-Ping Yee: Roundup - a simple and effective bug-tracking system http://www.lfw.org/python/
• Phil Thompson: PyQt/PyKDE v0.11 (python bindings for Qt and KDE) (see DN603477664)
• William Park: Simple Numerical Recipes in Python http://www.python.org/topics/scicomp/recipes_in_python.html
• ReportLab Inc: ReportLab Release 0.90 (PDF generator library) (see DN603415004)
• Digital Creations: Zope 2.1.6 http://www.zope.com/Products/Zope/2.1.6/Zope_216_release

Bits and pieces from the newsgroup:

• Mark Hammond: How to determine the Ethernet HW Address (on Windows, requires PythonWin 130): (see DN603363272)
• Michael Hudson: How to use continuations in Stackless Python: (see DN600190793)
• Gordon McMillan: On Python's startup performance: (see DN599756252)