Python grows up in several ways this week: The standard Python documentation is available in book form by toExcel.com, and the royalties go to the PSA. According to Guido they're nicely done. http://www.toexcel.com/bookstore/book_detail.asp?isbn=1583483756 http://www.toexcel.com/bookstore/book_detail.asp?isbn=158348373X http://www.toexcel.com/bookstore/book_detail.asp?isbn=1583483748 Barry Warsaw releases JPython 1.1b3, which once again allows optional access to non-public Java class members. http://www.jpython.org/ Comp.lang.python.announce is flooded by announcements of new software. http://www.egroups.com/listsaver/python-announce-list/ Greg Ewing implements the extended call syntax that Guido had agreed to consider for 1.6 (he wins the grammar-hacker award of the month!). http://www.deja.com/getdoc.xp?AN=528523696 In a thread on Donn Cave, master of fork & friends, points us to his tool to invoke shell commands on Unix and get the output. http://www.deja.com/getdoc.xp?AN=529129001 The IDLE part of the CVS tree is now mirrored nightly, for those who want IDLE but don't care for the rest of the Python CVS tree. http://starship.python.net/crew/da/idledists/ Dr. Dobb's Journal's Python Resource CD-ROM is a nice collection of Python distributions, tools, software, documentation and articles http://www.digitalriver.com/dr/v2/ec_MAIN.Entry10?SP=10023&PN=1&V1=164146&xid=2823 The Python-URL! and Tcl-URL! archives are back, thanks to Jean-Claude Wippler http://mini.net/cgi-bin/url/ Reminder: The Python Conference is accepting paper submissions until the end of the month. http://www.python.org/workshops/2000-01/cfp.html http://www.deja.com/getdoc.xp?AN=525600398 ========================================================================= 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 ------------------------------------------------------------