[Note: this re-post of this week's "Python-URL!" corrects the URLs for the deja.com references.] Today is election day in the United States. Here are the winners from a much simpler yet equally non-scientific selection process: The Python Consortium is started! Hewlett-Packard and LLNL provides the marquee status and the big bucks, Digital Creations the wildly successful application, Interet quietly chips in, along with Foretec Seminars, the first organization that had a check in hand! http://www.python.org/consortium/ Michel Pelletier (of Digital Creations) and Dan York (of LinuxCare) announce that they are writing a Zope book for O'Reilly and Associates: http://www.zope.org/Members/michel/ZopeBook/index_html/index_html Jan Walter announces some scripts for Blender, a computer graphics rendering tool, with very nice pictures to boot: http://www.q-bus.de/Blender/ David S. Harrison puts forth code which formats number for human consumption: http://www.deja.com/getdoc.xp?AN=542270123 Scot Hacker explains how good scripting BeOS is http://www.byte.com/column/BYT19991026S0001 Tim Peters sort of sorts out some of the sort issues sorted out between 1.5.1 and 1.5.2: http://www.deja.com/getdoc.xp?AN=541957314 The same Tim accounts for a surprising 'feature' involving testing the object identity of immutable objects which puzzled Pearu Peterson and yours truly: http://www.python.org/pipermail/matrix-sig/1999-November/003106.html ========================================================================= 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. Mention "Python-URL!". -- 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 ------------------------------------------------------------