Python-URL! for June 26, 2000

Date: Mon, 26 Jun 2000 09:15:40 -0500 (CDT)

From: Andrew M. Kuchling akuchlin@mems-exchange.org

Newsgroups: comp.lang.python

Subject: Dr. Dobb’s Python-URL! – weekly Python news and links (Jun 26)

Digital Creations releases the first public alpha of ZEO,
version 0.2. In essence, ZEO and ZODB form a language-specific
object database for Python objects

http://www.zope.org/Products/ZEO/

Python is an interpreted, interactive, object-oriented programming language.

Your editor writes a draft of an article about using ZEO and
ZODB

http://starship.python.net/crew/amk/python/writing/zodb-zeo.html

PythonWare releases an implementation of SOAP 1.1. “This
version is somewhat experimental, and has a couple of known
shortcomings that we plan to fix asap. It has been tested against
Userland’s SOAP implementation, and it’s likely that it will work
with IBM’s Java library (we’ll know more about that later this
week).”

http://www.pythonware.com/products/soap/

Les Smithson mentioned having some Python code for X10 home
automation; contact him if you want to help out.

http://www.deja.com/getdoc.xp?AN=636731298&fmt=text

The 1.6 CVS tree has been hopping in preparation for a new release.
New stuff: Greg Ward announces autoconf-like features in the
Distutils

http://www.python.org/pipermail/distutils-sig/2000-June/001636.html

An example config

http://www.python.org/pipermail/distutils-sig/2000-June/001637.html

And Fredrik Lundh makes a bit of 1.6’s Tkinter significantly
faster:

http://www.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2000-June/006165.html

Everything you want is probably one or two clicks away in these pages:

Python.org’s Python Language Website is the center of Pythonia

http://www.python.org

eff-bot’s complements this digest with his daily python url

http://hem.passagen.se/eff/url.htm

Much of Python’s real work takes place on Special-Interest Group
mailing lists

http://www.python.org/sigs/

Python Consortium emerges as an independent nexus of activity

http://www.python.org/consortium

The Vaults of Parnassus ambitiously collects Python resources

http://www.vex.net/~x/parnassus/

Python FAQTS

http://python.faqts.com/

Python To-Do List anticipates some of Python’s future direction

http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/todo.py

Python Journal is at work on its second issue

http://www.pythonjournal.com

Links2Go is a new semi-automated link collection; it’s impressive
what AI can generate

http://www.links2go.com/search?search=python

Archive probing trick of the trade: