Our welcome to readers arriving by way of *Dr. Dobb's Journal*'s new sponsorship of Python-URL! Phil Hughes of *Linux Journal* interviews Guido. http://207.178.22.52/articles/conversations/005.html Guido procrastinates on the web and finds a whole slew of Python books which will soon hit your shelves: http://www.deja.com/getdoc.xp?AN=530028166 IBM's website features a nice introduction to Python: http://www-4.ibm.com/software/developer/library/python101.html ESR (a.k.a. Eric Raymond) mentions wanting to hack on Python 1.6 as one of this top TODO items: http://slashdot.org/interviews/99/09/30/1418244.shtml DistUtils is getting there! Thanks to Greg Ward's leadership, version 0.1 is released: http://www.python.org/sigs/distutils-sig/ The German translation of the Python tutorial is finished: http://starship.python.net/crew/gherman/publications/tut-de/ There's activity on the Python in Finance & Accounting mailing list, with various starts at useful modules: http://www.egroups.com/group/python-finance Skip Montanaro provides a tool to find variable names that hide builtin names. Announcement and URL follow: http://www.deja.com/getdoc.xp?AN=531134027 http://www.musi-cal.com/~skip/python/hiding.py Michael Haggerty comes up with a cool trick that even Guido hadn't thought of to split the keys and values of a mapping in separate parallel lists: http://www.deja.com/getdoc.xp?AN=530510248 http://www.deja.com/getdoc.xp?AN=530683849 ========================================================================= 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-- Dr. Dobb's Journal (http://www.ddj.com) is pleased to participate in and sponsor the "Python-URL!" project. == 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 ------------------------------------------------------------