Python in Publications

Here is a cumulative listing of various articles and other published items about Python, most recent first. (Please notify us of any new items you discover, via webmaster@python.org.)

• An article on Python (in German) Rainer Fischbach published in iX - Magazin fuer professionelle Informationstechnik.

• Python Squeezes the Web by Stephen Pitts. This article on LinuxPlanet is a good example of using Python to solve a practical "real world" problem.

• An Interview with Guido van Rossum by Frank Willison of O'Reilly, in his "Frankly Speaking" column of 10/4/1999.

• An Interview with Guido van Rossum by Phil Hughes of Linux Journal. Guido tells all about CP4E.

• IBM includes Python in its developers library. A nice article by Evelyn Mitchell that contains an even-handed comparison between Python and several competing languages.

• Here's an interesting article on Builder.com entitled "The Most Elegant Scripting Language You'll Probably Never Use". We hope the second half of the title is wrong, but it's a cool article anyway!.

• DevShed.com has a new article on Python, entitled "Writing CGI Programs in Python" and talks about some basic CGI programming techniques.

• Two Python publications appeared in the Digital Systems Report, Summer, 1998:
  • A Look At Python
    by Antonino Mione
  • Generating Dynamic Documents From Templates
    By Chenna Ramu (with source code)

• www.scripting.com features python in two announcements today - links to Xerox's WebDAV server and to the release of XML v0.5 of the XML SIG's work. (14-Dec-1998)

• The Boston Globe article The Next Big Thing (page 1 of the business section of the print version) is mostly about the open-source phenomenon, and Tim O'Reilly's vantage point on it - Python is mentioned among other leading open-source forces. (This reader especially liked the article, particularly its incisive conclusion.) (13-Dec-1998)

• An InfoWorld Online article, Python slithers forward, talks about how Python's open-source process applies pressure with things like the XML project and Digital Creation's Zope. (12-Dec-1998)

• Scripting Tools and Java focuses on JPython in the December issue of JavaPro. (11-Dec-1998)

• Stefane Fermigier has an article, Présentation du langage Python, in the French computer magazine, Pogrammez!. (10-Dec-1998)

• November, 1998 - "Rapid Prototyping with SWIG" in C/C++ Users Journal
  By Daniel Blezek. All the examples use Python, with a sidebar about "Classes and Objects in Python". The example demonstrated is wrapping the Image Magick library. (Added 03-Nov-1998.)

• November, 1998 - "The Python HTMLgen Module" and "LJ Interviews Guido van Rossum", in Linux Journal (Added 03-Nov-1998.)

• The safety of scripting, in Sunworld Online, announces some recent news in the Python world. (Oct-1998)

• Python Pocket Reference by Mark Lutz - a compact (small format, 80 pages), handy dandy Python reference book, published by O'Reilly. (Sep-1998)

• Developer.Com JPython Article, an overview of JPython by Python's inventor, Guido van Rossum. (19-Aug-1998)

• Handbook of Programming Languages - Chapter on Python in Volume 3, Little Languages and Tools, ISBN 1578700108. (12-Aug-98)

• Programming Python: Errata/Updates - errata and summary of Python language changes since Python 1.3 for the Programming Python book by Mark Lutz. (12-Aug-98)

• The Japanese translation of "Programming Python" is out. It reached number 5 on the computer bestseller list! Here's the announcement (Japanese website). (01-May-1998)

• JPython lets Python and Java integrate, in JavaWorld's News and New Product Briefs. (8-Mar-1998)

• May, 1998 - "The Python DB-API", in Linux Journal
  A brief discussion of the standard database API for Python. (Added 22-Apr-1998.)

• April, 1998 - Open Source: The state of the Art
  The online magazine Webreview has a special issue on open source, with ample mention of Python

• March, 1998 - Software Development magazine's "Scripting Languages Go Prime Time" (April, '98)
  "Python compares favorably with Perl and Tcl for Internet and web development [...] due to its strong object orientation, it may be the best scripting language of those reviewed in this article to learn as a first language"

• March, 1998 - Sunworld Online's GUI toolkits article
  The article singles out Python for discussion, stating "It's an excellent vehicle with which to learn, prototype, and, in many case, deliver finished applications."

• February, 1998 - Getting Started With Python
  Readers of the October SunWorld Online article requested more information about Python, resulting in this follow-up article which takes a closer look at the language. (Added 18-Feb-1998.)

• February, 1998 - Dr Dobb's Journal Articles
  The February issue of Dr. Dobb's Journal, about Scripting Languages, has three articles involving Python:
  • One on SWIG: "a freely available tool that lets you generate interfaces to a variety of scripting languages from a common interface description.
  • Another, titled "Template Processing Classes For Python, demonstrates embedding Python objects in HTML. There's also a sidebar about the new features in the just-released Python 1.5.
  • The third article is "XML Programming in Python", and "shows how you can use Python as a development platform for XML programming."
  (Added 18-Feb-1998.)

• February, 1998 - A CGI Framework in Python
  The February issue of Web Techniques, about Scripting Languages, contains an article which develops a simple-to-use Python framework for a Web site's CGI scripts. (Added 18-Feb-1998.)

• Programming Python Reviewed in Dr. Dobbs Review of Computer Books, in the November issue. Both Mark's book and Python, itself, were cast in favorable light. (30-Oct-1997)

• October, 1997 - Lawrence Livermore National Lab's Python Projects Documentation released.
  Initially covering:
  • PyHistory -- the time history package
  • PyGraphics -- the object-oriented graphics / Gist interface (2- and 3-D graphics)
  • PyTutorial -- the slides for "Introduction to Python" to be given at Spam VI.
  They "will be adding more documentation steadily so, like voters in Chicago, visit early and often throughout the day" :-) (Added 9-Oct-1997.)

• October, 1997 - Choosing a Scripting Language
  Subtitled Perl, Tcl, and Python: they're not your father's scripting languages, Python seems to be cast as the more recent, high-fidelity one of this bunch of "Big Three" scripting languages. (Added 9-Oct-1997.)

• October, 1997 - A Language Collector Comments On: Java, Perl & Python
  Python coverage is small here, but with enthusiasm. (Added 9-Oct-1997.)

• The October '97 issue of Linux Journal had a review of Internet Programming with Python, with favorable impressions both of the book and the language... (23-Sep-1997)

• July, 1997 - Linux Gazette article Using Python to Generate HTML Pages
  One Python (and OO) novice's experience getting familiar with Python in the context of an HTML-oriented task. (Added 8-Aug-1997.)

• June, 1997 - Walnut Creek's Python Archive CD ROM
  Packages the Python web and ftp sites. (Added 21-May-1997.)

• May, 1997 - Python Articles for Japanese Dr Dobbs
  Junichi Suzuki will be writing a series of seven articles concerning Python for the Japanese edition of Doctor Dobb's Journal. (Added 21-May-1997.)

• A new (German-language) book has been published. (1-Apr-1997)

• April, 1997 - Linux Journal Article
  The May issue of Linux Journal has Python Update, by Andrew Kuchling. (Added 4/25/97.)

• April, 1997 - World Wide Web Journal Article
  An article by Guido van Rossum on scripting the web with Python appears in the new issue of O'Reilly's World Wide Web Journal, Scripting Languages: Automating the Web. (Order now.) (Added 04/25/97.)

• February, 1997 - Byte article on Python
  See Jeffrey Shell's article, Python Does Scripts and Objects, in the February, '97 BYTE Core Technologies: Programming column.

• Python books are now on sale on the python.org website, via Amazon.com. (04-Feb-1997)

• See Jeffrey Shell's article, Python Does Scripts and Objects, in the February, '97 BYTE Core Technologies: Programming column. (1-Feb-1997)

• February, 1997 - Linux Journal Article
  The February issue of Linux Journal has Writing CGI Scripts in Python, by Michel Vanaken. (Added 1/9/97.)

• January, 1997 - Web Review Python Article
  Web Review's Jan 9 Bleeding Edge column is Python: It's Not Just For Laughs. It's by Frank Willison, the O'Reilly editor of Mark Lutz's Programming Python book. (Added 1/9/97.)

• January, 1997 - Dr Dobb's Sourcebook Articles
  The January/February issue of Dr. Dobb's Sourcebook, about Distributed objects, has two articles involving Python:
  • One on Hector: "a framework that sits above other distributed environments, providing open negotiation and interoperability of communication protocols--and it is implemented almost entirely in Python."
  • And another on ILU: "a CORBA-ish multi-language object interface system."
  (Added 1/9/97.)

• Programming Python, by Mark Lutz, and Internet Programming with Python, by Aaron Watters, Guido van Rossum and Jim Ahlstrom are in the bookstores now! (28-Aug-1996)

• June, 1996 - Python book FAQ from author
  Mark Lutz has put together a sort of FAQ about his O'Reilly Python Book, Programming Python.

• January, 1996 - Introductory article in Linux Journal
  Jeff Bauer wrote "An Introduction to Python" for Linux Journal.

• July 27, 1995 -- Python tutorial in UnixWorld Online
  Aaron Watters published a tutorial article on Python in UnixWorld Online.

• April, 1995 -- Python: A GUI Development Tool
  Matthew J. Conway published the first tutorial article mentioning Python, for ACM's "Interactions".