Python-URL! for February 3, 2000

Date: Thu, 3 Feb 2000 18:18:00 -0600 (CST)
From: “Fredrik Lundh” effbot@telia.com

The eff-bot finally makes it back from the Python conference,
after an involuntary detour to Oslo. Here’s this weeks’
Python-Alert, worth well over $9.52 per week:

First, a couple of reminders:

Don’t forget Software Carpentry’s design competition:
http://software-carpentry.codesourcery.com/contest-rules.html

Don’t forget the www.python.org design competition:
http://www.python.org/Redesign.html

And don’t forget the O’Reilly Python Conference: deadline
extended to at least Feb 15:
http://conferences.oreilly.com/oscon2000/call.html

The eighth Python conference (SPAM8) was a huge success. Almost
everyone was there, except Tim Peters. He might be real, though —
at least two usually reliable sources told me they’d met him in
real life.

Here’re interesting links:
http://www.oreilly.com/frank/index.html
(frank willison)
http://starship.python.net/crew/amk/diary
(andrew kuchling)
http://freeweb.pdq.net/robinf1/spam8pix/
(robin friedrich’s photo album)
http://www.python.org/workshops/2000-01/
(conference site)
http://www.reiters.com/
(official conference bookstore)
http://www.cravindogs.com/about.html
(python powered, sort of)

In other news: ActiveState (www.activestate.com) joins the
Python Consortium, and announces great plans for Python. David
Ascher has more info on this:
http://www.egroups.com/group/python-list/77941.html

http://www.activestate.com/press/releases/python.htm

Secret Labs AB (www.pythonware.com) joins the Python Consortium,
and also receives first round of venture funding from the East
Sweden Foundation of Entrepreneurship and Technology Transfer.

People keep releasing cool software: Christian Tismer’s
übercool stackless python:
http://www.tismer.com/research/stackless/

Barry Warsaw announces JPython 1.1 final:
http://www.jpython.org/NEWS

Andreas Jung releases PMW (Poor Man’s Zope):
http://www.suxers.de/pmz.htm

More books arrive:
Python and Tkinter Programming (by John Grayson)
http://www.deja.com/getdoc.xp?AN=575925861

http://www.manning.com/grayson/

Python Programming for Win32 (Andy Robinson & Mark
Hammond)
http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/pythonwin32

(both books mention my name, so they can’t be that bad 😉

Btw, judging from what people told the eff-bot at SPAM8, at
least four more books are in the works. And if you want to write
your own Python book, Greg Wilson has some great ideas for you:
http://www.deja.com/getdoc.xp?AN=579589266

Finally, the Scheme folks reveal the truth about Python and
Pythoneers, but completely fails to start another flame war. Read
more in this thread:
http://www.deja.com/viewthread.xp?AN=580480307

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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

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

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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