Python-URL! - 1999/11/16

by Gordon McMillan - DejaNews: [1]

Python-URL! - the (approximately) weekly digest of news and snippets from the Python community.

• For the CORBA-inclined, there was some great news out of AT&T Labs, Cambridge: In (see DN546873219) Duncan Grisby announced omniORB, a free C++ ORB conforming to the OMG's (draft) Python mappings. http://www.uk.research.att.com/omniORB/omniORBpy/
• Robin Dunn announces release 2.1.11 of wxPython, a wrapper for the full-featured and snappy cross-platform GUI wxWindows. (see DN549145965) http://alldunn.com/wxPython/
• In a series of mysterious and understated messages (like (see DN548355817) ), an awesome new compendium of Python resource links is divulged: http://www.vex.net/~x/parnassus/ . The highly dynamic author and maintainer can be referred to as "Tim Middleton", for those who are old-fashioned about that sort of thing.
• Jeffrey Kunce shares his configuration for doing a shared NT network installation of python: (see DN547109447) http://starship.python.net/crew/jjkunce/
• There were a couple messages on Python in the big time: Paul Everitt in (see DN546857881) points us to an article about the merger of eGroups and Onelist: http://www.thestandard.com/articles/display/0,1449,7543,00.html
• While Fredrik in (see DN546861601) points to an article on Searchbutton.com http://cnbc.com/commentary/commentary_full_story_stocks.asp?StoryID=6926
• Speaking of big-time, Skip Montanaro talks about the configuration of one high volume Python-powered website: his own Musi-Cal site: (see DN546536571)
• Finally, from the "what-the?" dept., the eff-bot comments on Latin-1 and other strange characters in Python: (see DN546828364)