a little late but...
(python URL for 2/19/02)
Python-URL! - 2002/02/19
by Jason Orendorff
QOTW:
"I am always amazed at how many things are built in to Python." � Kevin Parks, upon being reminded about the bisect module
"Using pyperl to access Oracle is like taking a bus from New York to San Francisco so you can fly to Los Angeles." � Steve Holden
"In some ways, it's an like an RPN version of Python, without the class machinery." � Roy Smith in praise of Postscript
Charleroi, 40 km south of Brussels, will host the first European Python/Zope Conference on June 26-28, 2002.
http://www.europython.org/wiki
mailto:europython@python.org
xml_pickle converts Python objects and data structures to XML and back. Version 0.51 sports a dozen new features, including a fine-grained security model.
http://groups.google.com/groups?th=a05a64ce89c893a7
PEP 282 proposes a standard logging system for Python.
http://groups.google.com/groups?th=b849e15006ee969b
O'ReillyNet covers the new incarnation of Stackless Python.
http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/python/2002/02/14/pythonnews.html
AnyCons is a common API for interactive console-mode graphics that works on Unix and Windows.
http://newcenturycomputers.net/projects/anycons.html
Sheila King implements file locking on Unix and Windows.
http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=a4ghg4.3vv79at.1%40kserver.org
EasyGui provides some convenient functions for simple GUI dialogs, allowing mostly-procedural code to pop up the occasional message box.
http://home.att.net/~stephen_ferg/easygui/index.html
Several approaches for drawing graphics "in slow motion" with Tkinter:
http://groups.google.com/groups?th=15bf9d6a120fa5bd
Several approaches for dynamically dropping input fields into a paragraph of text in a GUI.
http://groups.google.com/groups?th=705793c315c8d274
Just van Rossum explains how to sort a list of lists by their first element, using the second element to break ties. (Hint: There is a default sort order for lists.)
http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=just- 26D236.09311915022002%40news1.xs4all.nl
On comp.lang.python: An innocent question about the leading-zero notation for octal numbers leads to a historical quest for the origin of this confusing syntax. No conclusion is reached, but some Sperry UNIVAC nostalgia is shared.
http://groups.google.com/groups?th=68307c927083e7d0
http://www.fourmilab.ch/documents/univac/fastrand.html
Guido van Rossum wins the fourth annual FSF Award for the Advancement of Free Software.
http://www.fsf.org/press/2002-02-16-FSF-Award.html
source: http://www.ddj.com/documents/s=1712/ddj1014140723739/do200202py003.htm
Python-URL! - 2002/02/19
by Jason Orendorff
QOTW:
"I am always amazed at how many things are built in to Python." � Kevin Parks, upon being reminded about the bisect module
"Using pyperl to access Oracle is like taking a bus from New York to San Francisco so you can fly to Los Angeles." � Steve Holden
"In some ways, it's an like an RPN version of Python, without the class machinery." � Roy Smith in praise of Postscript
Charleroi, 40 km south of Brussels, will host the first European Python/Zope Conference on June 26-28, 2002.
http://www.europython.org/wiki
mailto:europython@python.org
xml_pickle converts Python objects and data structures to XML and back. Version 0.51 sports a dozen new features, including a fine-grained security model.
http://groups.google.com/groups?th=a05a64ce89c893a7
PEP 282 proposes a standard logging system for Python.
http://groups.google.com/groups?th=b849e15006ee969b
O'ReillyNet covers the new incarnation of Stackless Python.
http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/python/2002/02/14/pythonnews.html
AnyCons is a common API for interactive console-mode graphics that works on Unix and Windows.
http://newcenturycomputers.net/projects/anycons.html
Sheila King implements file locking on Unix and Windows.
http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=a4ghg4.3vv79at.1%40kserver.org
EasyGui provides some convenient functions for simple GUI dialogs, allowing mostly-procedural code to pop up the occasional message box.
http://home.att.net/~stephen_ferg/easygui/index.html
Several approaches for drawing graphics "in slow motion" with Tkinter:
http://groups.google.com/groups?th=15bf9d6a120fa5bd
Several approaches for dynamically dropping input fields into a paragraph of text in a GUI.
http://groups.google.com/groups?th=705793c315c8d274
Just van Rossum explains how to sort a list of lists by their first element, using the second element to break ties. (Hint: There is a default sort order for lists.)
http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=just- 26D236.09311915022002%40news1.xs4all.nl
On comp.lang.python: An innocent question about the leading-zero notation for octal numbers leads to a historical quest for the origin of this confusing syntax. No conclusion is reached, but some Sperry UNIVAC nostalgia is shared.
http://groups.google.com/groups?th=68307c927083e7d0
http://www.fourmilab.ch/documents/univac/fastrand.html
Guido van Rossum wins the fourth annual FSF Award for the Advancement of Free Software.
http://www.fsf.org/press/2002-02-16-FSF-Award.html
source: http://www.ddj.com/documents/s=1712/ddj1014140723739/do200202py003.htm
