Python-URL! - 1999/11/30

by Gordon McMillan - DejaNews: [1]

Noteworthy items this week from Pythondom:

• Michael Stroeder announces pyCA-0.6.2 - a set of scripts and CGI-BIN programs written in Python for setting up and running a certificate authority using OpenSSL. (see DN553266414)
• Sean Reifschneider announces sockserv, a SMTP/NNTP/POP- like server module that makes it easy to create command / response type servers. (see DN553266413)
• Tony Ibbs announces v0.3 for his metalanguage for mxTextTools (see DN553266415) [Note: mxTextTools features an unusual and extremely fast parsing engine with an incomprehensible API; Tony has been slowly chipping away at making the interface non-hostile for a year or so.]
• Mike Fletcher posts mandelbrot.py (see DN554408930) which shows off both wxPython and the Numeric extensions.
• The subject of automatic garbage collection returns, this time with a practical cast: Fredrik Lundh on how it would be helpful: (see DN553393467) James Logajan on why he prefers the current approach: (see DN553396826) And finally, Bijan Parsia gives pointers to some modern GC implementations that should ease James' concerns. (see DN553786287)
• Tim Peters exposes his impractical bent, and shows that an apparently simple "lottery" game isn't so simple: (see DN552877307) and (see DN553253462)