Issue 1 and 2 are now part of the Archive available at no additional costs to subscribers. Issue 3 should be available within the next month!

Articles:   Configuration Files Made Easy by: Sean Reifschneider Configuration files are commonly used, but there is no single standard that they conform to. The result is that there are very few tools for managing them. However, the Python programming language, because of its dynamic nature, can be of help.   POOPy: Introduction to Objects in Python by: Greg Lindstrom This article covers Programming with Object Orientation in Python   Extending Python with C: Part II by: Alex Martelli This is the second Part of Alex Martelli's article series on using C to code Python extension modules.   Jython & zxJDBC Database Programming by: Brian Zimmer Jython is the Java implementation of the Python programming language. It is a powerful tool for parsing data, accessing databases and other day-to-day development tasks. One of the “batteries included” is an implementation of the Python DB API, zxJDBC. In this article we will parse some hypothetical triathlon results, insert them into MySQL and perform a couple data mining operations.   Scientific: Array Broadcasting in Numeric by: Eric Jones *** This article will be available this weekend *** Last issues column introduced Numeric and the concept of array arithmetic. This time, we’ll explore a more advanced concept in Numeric called broadcasting.

About this Issue: We are working to make previously published Issues available in our Archives. Bryan Richard has sent us the digital files so we will be layouting these for the web over the next few months. All these articles will be available to subscribers. Some of these articles we will also be making freely available to the Python community so stay tuned!