End of summer fruit from comp.lang.python and related trees: The next International Python Conference is scheduled, and the program committee eagerly awaits paper submissions: http://www.python.org/workshops/2000-01/ http://www.python.org/workshops/2000-01/cfp.html Andreas Jung self-deprecatingly misses the elegance of a simple program he wrote to beautify XML: http://www.deja.com/getdoc.xp?AN=520249301 While we're talking about XML, there are announcements from the FourThought folks of the backend tools they talked about in Monterey: http://www.python.org/pipermail/xml-sig/1999-September/001420.html http://www.python.org/pipermail/xml-sig/1999-September/001421.html http://www.python.org/pipermail/xml-sig/1999-September/001422.html Mark Hammond says that "it works fine", whether he's talking about MTS, the registry, audits, permissions, remote servers, etc. We're getting jaded! http://www.deja.com/getdoc.xp?AN=521155191 http://www.deja.com/getdoc.xp?AN=520824493 Mark also announces that his win32 extensions are now under CVS control: http://starship.python.net/crew/mhammond/cvs.html In the "scary" category, Greg Ewing takes a sneaky way around an implementation trick and pretends it's the "design pattern" that Magnus Hetland asked for (and Magnus agrees!): http://www.deja.com/getdoc.xp?AN=517466084 http://www.deja.com/getdoc.xp?AN=520858452 Tim Peters regales us with more details about strings in Python than you cared to know about: http://www.deja.com/getdoc.xp?AN=521587749 Among lots of rambling dispatches on the topic of Turing completeness and other nonsense, Greg Ewing sets us straight on the future of Python: http://www.python.org/pipermail/python-list/1999-September/017036.html In the field of useless algorithms people like to bicker about, the ugly truth emerges that version skew exists even for "authoritative" books: http://www.deja.com/getdoc.xp?AN=519554469 PS: Your editor wants to know if you prefer deja.com URLs or python.org pipermail URLs -- send him email at mailto:da@ski.org ========================================================================= 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 ------------------------------------------------------------