December 16, 2001
Python-URL!
Paul Boddie
pythonurl
QOTW:
"I'm ready to bet a good lunch at Bologna's best restaurant,
wine included, that dependencies will become much more common, i.e.,
that reuse will indeed have been encouraged."
- - -
Alex Martelli [on
CPAN, Python and dependencies]
- "Release candidate 1" brings the final release of Python 2.2 one
step closer.
http://groups.google.com/groups?th=ca492fd6f83f8427
- It may have seemed stupid to ask how a Python program can be
distributed stand-alone, but how often does jythonc get
mentioned in response?
http://groups.google.com/groups?th=40655c77b2331e34
- Some time ago, Paul Tchistopolskii regarded Zope as being the
Windows 3.0 of the Web. That may seem harsh, but there haven't
been many protests - perhaps he has a point...
http://www.pault.com/pault/zope/zope.html
- Comparing like with like, now, and a more straightforward
comparison has to be between the Apache components mod_python and
mod_snake. If you want to do CGI-like things, but faster, a few
suggestions are offered.
http://groups.google.com/groups?th=feacc6d11cc98af1
- Alexandre Fayolle inadvertently rises to the challenge of last
week's "Python-URL!" with a summary of interesting XML modules.
http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=slrna1ci7t.9tl.alf%40sagittarius.logilab.fr
- And on the subject of "Python as XML", whatever happened to Xython?
http://sourceforge.net/projects/xython/
- Mygale seems to make the "Python-URL!" editor's job redundant...
or easier?
http://www.awaretek.com/nowak/mygale.html
- Talking of vaults, whatever happened to the Python CPAN?
http://groups.google.com/groups?th=2ab22a9d10d675a3
- Well, Suchandra Thapa exposes ciphon to beta testing.
http://groups.google.com/groups?th=add05b3ce874d380
- And remember the Software Carpentry project? Well, here's the
first release of SCons - the build/make tool of that project.
http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=mailman.1008305779.12195.python-list%40python.org
- Meanwhile, here's an SMTP server written in Python. Just in
case you ever needed one.
http://www.hare.demon.co.uk/pysmtp.html
- Wanted: speakers for a Python event in the United Kingdom.
http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=mailman.1008168137.12533.python-list%40python.org
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