Python-URL! - 1999/01/13

by Mike Orr - DejaNews: [1]

• PYTHON TOPIC GUIDES!! This webpage of specialty resources should be on everyone's bookmark http://www.python.org/topics/
• Zope's relationship to Bobo. (Modules for web site designers) (see DN429993802)
• "pydoc" is a simple script that prints an object's docstring. Useful for looking up module documentation from the command line (see DN430213766)
• Deep understanding of the Python virtual machine (thread [2])
• The Distutils-SIG is trying to develop a standard suite of Module Distribution Utilities for Python. Also, thread "autoconf and python applications" in comp.lang.python discusses (but does not resolve) which directory(ies) to install third-party packages into by default (thread [3])
• Thread "Minimal CGI-publisher..." discusses helper functions for CGI-script designers, a la the Dylan language's function-publishing feature. (Like Zope's ZPublisher but smaller/simpler.) (thread [4]) (see DN430223145)
• callername() returns the name of the function that called your code, useful for error messages. Mimics part of what Perl's carp/cluck/croak/confess routines print. -Ed. (see DN430320357)
• Example of catching HTTP errors in a CGI script (see DN430394650)
• Handling Windows' case-insensitive and case-changing file names. (humorous) (see DN430121050)
• IDLE 0.2 (Integrated Development Environment) (requires Python 1.5.2 beta) The newsgroup thread also has maintenance patches (thread [5])