Python-URL! for April 18, 2000

Date: Tue, 18 Apr 2000 13:49:02 -0500 (CDT)
From: Fredrik Lundh effbot@telia.com
Subject: Dr. Dobb’s Python-URL! – weekly Python news and links (Apr
18)

>From the minor disaster department:
starship.python.net is down. It will be up again soon, but most of
the contents have been lost in a major disk crash. If you, for some
reason, have mirrored portions of it, contact the maintainers. More
info here:
http://www.deja.com/=dnc/getdoc.xp?AN=612763208

http://www.deja.com/=dnc/getdoc.xp?AN=612100048

In other news: Software Carpentry: The Design Competition
Entries are in:
http://software-carpentry.codesourcery.com/entries/index.html

Ng Pheng Siong: M2Crypto 0.04
http://mars.post1.com/home/ngps/m2/

http://www.deja.com/=dnc/getdoc.xp?AN=612311988

John Aycock: SPARK 0.6
http://csr.uvic.ca/~aycock/python

http://www.deja.com/=dnc/getdoc.xp?AN=610996110

CADScript: CAD data access from Python
http://www.deja.com/=dnc/getdoc.xp?AN=610644248

Mark Lutz: Python Training in Boulder, Colorado
http://www.deja.com/=dnc/getdoc.xp?AN=610763192

Cristian Echeverria: Theme support for Tkinter
http://www.geocities.com/cristian_echeverria/Chevegui.html

PyUnit – a unit testing framework for Python
http://pyunit.sourceforge.net/

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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

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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or

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