Dr. Dobb's Python-URL! - weekly Python news and links (Nov 2)

[David Ascher]

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&=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


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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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        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


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