README: Python-URL! - the weekly guide to Python resources (Sep 27)
David Ascher
da at ski.org
Mon Sep 27 11:16:58 EDT 1999
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
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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
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
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