This week's dispatch from the world of spam, spam and spam 'n eggs: Frank Willison, O'Reilly's editor in chief, muses about the open source communities in his column, and wears a subversive t-shirt when he talks to TechNetCast: http://www.oreilly.com/frank/ http://www.technetcast.com/tnc_program.html?program_id=38 Mike Olson gives a one-page (well, one HTML page!) introduction to CORBA, ORBs, etc. in LinuxWorld: http://www.linuxworld.com/linuxworld/lw-1999-09/lw-09-corba_1.htmlc Remco Gerlich reveals how to use Python's underappreciated line-completion tool automatically: http://www.deja.com/getdoc.xp?AN=522511625 Jeffrey Kunce gives some sample code to interface to Novell's Groupwise mailboxes: http://www.deja.com/getdoc.xp?AN=522571735 In a continuing heroic effort to answer as many questions as the bots, Robert Kern points out the best resources for folks wishing to learn how to program using Python: http://www.deja.com/getdoc.xp?AN=523189453 The regularly expressed problem of finding strings is match()'ed by, naturally speaking, Tim Peters: http://www.deja.com/getdoc.xp?AN=523934915 Once again, Greg Ewing discreetly throws a grenade into the jello bowl. This time, it's an implementation of a perennial favorite topic from the functional subspace, list comprehensions: http://www.deja.com/getdoc.xp?AN=523672423 ========================================================================= 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 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 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: http://www.dejanews.com/dnquery.xp?QRY=&DBS=2&ST=PS&defaultOp=AND&LNG=ALL&format=threaded&showsort=date&maxhits=100&groups=comp.lang.python Previous - (U)se the (R)esource, (L)uke! - messages are listed here: http://purl.org/thecliff/python/url.html or http://www.dejanews.com/dnquery.xp?QRY=~g%20comp.lang.python%20Python-URL%21 Suggestions/corrections for next week's posting are always welcome. http://www.egroups.com/list/python-url-leads/ To receive a new issue of this posting in e-mail each Monday morning, ask <claird@neosoft.com> to subscribe. -- The Python-URL! Team-- == Cameron Laird http://starbase.neosoft.com/~claird/home.html claird@NeoSoft.com +1 281 996 8546 FAX -- ----------- comp.lang.python.announce (moderated) ---------- Article Submission Address: python-announce@python.org Python Language Home Page: http://www.python.org/ Python Quick Help Index: http://www.python.org/Help.html ------------------------------------------------------------