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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
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
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
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
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:
