by Gordon McMillan - DejaNews: [1]
This week on comp.lang.python we find:
- Evan Simpson's one page description of the anatomy of Zope: (see DN544506548)
- Paul Duffin's speculation about how "stubbed" Tcl might be used by Tkinter: (see DN545858112)
- The __str__ vs __repr__ thread rages on. Guido explains the rationale: (see DN544209311) Tim clarifies the problem: (see DN544718491) Bernhard Herzog makes an interesting proposal: (see DN544360351) while others split on whether "eval(repr(obj)) == obj" is a valuable property or a wart.
- Jean-Claude Wippler announces a stable beta of his Python wrappers for MetaKit (a cross-platform embedded database with intriguing properties): http://www.equi4.com/metakit/python.html
- Registration for IPC8 is now online: http://www.python.org/workshops/2000-01/registration.html and prompts some discussion of travel arrangements.
- Two new Python books get rave reviews: David Beazley's Python Essential Reference and Fredrik Lundh's ebook: (the eff-bot guide to) The Standard Python Library (although technical / platform problems create some controversy for the eff-bot!). http://www.python.org/psa/bookstore/
- Greg Ewing compares Python and Ruby and makes some interesting observations: on extension writing interface: (see DN543792249) on the object model: (see DN544255921)
- Python scores points on rec.humor.funny: http://www.netfunny.com/rhf/jokes/99/Nov/perl.html
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