The Python world is hopping this week, with some high-profile announcements:

Two books out this week!  Fredrik Lundh (a.k.a. eff-bot) published
his guide to the standard Python library as an eMatter volume:
    http://www.pythonware.com/people/fredrik/librarybook.htm

David Beazley releases a great summary of the essential Python
information in his most excellent book (I know, I reviewed it):
     http://www.deja.com/getdoc.xp&AN=540981804

Frank Willison is still pushing Python and Zope at ORA, in very
sneaky ways:
     http://www.oreilly.com/frank/rossum_1099.html
     http://www.oreilly.com/frank/

The Python Jobs board is live, and already populated with quite a
few job offers, some at marquee companies, some at intriguing
startups:
     http://www.python.org/Jobs.html

Marc-Andre Lemburg bit the bullet and with help from many, has a
module which gives much more information than sys.platform:
     http://starship.skyport.net/~lemburg/platform.py

There's an interesting discussion on whether multimethods
(a.k.a. multiple dispatch) could and should be used in Python.
     http://www.deja.com/getdoc.xp&AN=540981803
     http://www.deja.com/getdoc.xp&AN=542008708

Barry Warsaw releases JPython 1.1b4, fixing bugs and increasing
speed both:
     http://www.jpython.org

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  Much of Python's real work takes place on Special-Interest Group
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  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

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