Dr. Dobb's Python-URL! - weekly Python news and links (Oct 4)

[David Ascher]

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    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


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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

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