Python-URL! - 1999/02/01

by Mike Orr - DejaNews: [1]

• ILU 2.0alpha14. Inter-Language Unification, a library which allows programs written in one language to call functions written in another (see DN437374160)
• DCOracle 1.1.0. DBI-compliant extension module for Oracle. Open-source (see DN437374164)
• O'Reilley Python Conference, August 21-24, 1999 in Monterey, California. Deadline for paper submission abstracts is February 15th. This is not the International Python Conference organized by the PSA (see DN438315761)
• Remote Microscope 1.0alpha2. Controls an optical microscope of the Internet using a Java applet, as demonstrated at the recent Python conference (see DN438315762)
• Wish Python had standard APIs for drawing and printing? Andrew Robinson <andy@robanal.demon.co.uk> is trying to start a new SIG about this (see DN437653785)
• Getting PyTix 1.12 to work on Python 1.5. The Tk Interface Extension, with over 40 professional-looking mega-widgets (thread [2]) A summary of the Tkinter widget alternatives available under Python is at http://www.python.org/topics/tkinter/widgets.html
• Pythondoc, a tool for generating documentation from python source code. (Unfinished as of Oct 1998, but has some features Gendoc doesn't.) http://starship.skyport.net/crew/danilo/pythondoc/ Also see the archives of the Doc-SIG http://www.python.org/sigs/doc-sig/
• Guido's essays on various Python topics http://www.python.org/doc/essays/
• The ongoing debate on reference counting vs garbage collection (see DN438437739) (see DN438609999)
• Humor on why new keywords are bad, plus vegas-betting on new features in Python2 (see DN437429940)