Python-URL! for May 9, 2000

Date: Tue, 9 May 2000 18:13:46 -0500 (CDT)
From: Cameron Laird claird@NeoSoft.com
Newsgroups: comp.lang.python
Subject: Dr. Dobb's Python-URL! - weekly Python news and links (May 9)

Like most significant inventions, Unicode opens more questions than it answers
http://www.deja.com/=dnc/getdoc.xp?AN=619982915

SOAP is in the news
http://www.prnewswire.com/cgi-bin/stories.pl?ACCT=104&STORY=/www/story/04-26-2000/0001202060&EDATE=
http://www.newsalert.com/bin/story?StoryId=CorEnqbWbu0zuvteYn&FQ=PythonWare
http://www.w3.org/TR/SOAP/

Software Carpentry announced its first-round winners
http://software-carpentry.codesourcery.com/first-round.html

O'Reilly is sponsoring more Python content for the Web. Among the riches: Eric Hagemann's introduction to Python numerics
http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/python/2000/05/03/numerically.html and a hint that there might be a budget for support of the long-fantasized CPAN-like Python outpost
http://x28.deja.com/getdoc.xp?AN=619371970

Yet another company based on Python is born
http://www.deja.com/=dnc/getdoc.xp?AN=618383752

Dieter Maurer scripts audio CD playback
http://www.deja.com/=dnc/getdoc.xp?AN=619735149 and Intel scripts the IA-{32,64}'s rough equivalent of BIOS
http://www.deja.com/=dnc/getdoc.xp?AN=621181694

A second Gordon demonstrates his talent for making Win*-based Python comprehensible. This case has to do with the Borland Command Line Compiler
http://www.deja.com/=dnc/getdoc.xp?AN=619698470

Python.org's Python Language Website is the center of Pythonia
http://www.python.org

eff-bot's complements this digest with his daily python url
http://hem.passagen.se/eff/url.htm

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

The Vaults of Parnassus ambitiously collects Python resources
http://www.vex.net/~x/parnassus/

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

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