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Python-URL! for November 1, 2000

Date: Wed, 1 Nov 2000 05:30:24 -0600 (CST)
From: Grant Edwards grante@visi.com
Newsgroups: comp.lang.python
Subject: Dr. Dobb’s Python-URL! – weekly Python news and links (Nov
1)

Guido van Rossum: PythonLabs Team Moves to Digital Creations
http://deja.com/=dnc/getdoc.xp?AN=686714305

Randy Hudson nicely illustrate the event-listener pattern in the
context of Jython as an extension language for Java
http://deja.com/=dnc/getdoc.xp?AN=688152500

Moshe Zadka shows a portable locking mechanism
http://deja.com/=dnc/getdoc.xp?AN=687180692

Thomas Wouters provides a pointer to another locking scheme
http://deja.com/=dnc/getdoc.xp?AN=687318753

A.M. Kuchling reviews _Teach_Yourself_Python_in_24_Hours_
http://deja.com/=dnc/getdoc.xp?AN=687798879

Alex Martelli explains why slice indices work the way they
do
http://deja.com/=dnc/getdoc.xp?AN=688046177

and builds a primitive “use strict” before a live audience
http://deja.com/=dnc/getdoc.xp?AN=687764895

then re-does it metaprogrammatically
http://deja.com/=dnc/getdoc.xp?AN=687700793


Everything you want is probably one or two clicks away in these
pages:

Python.org’s Python Language Website is the traditional center
of Pythonia
http://www.python.org
although PythonLabs.com bills itself as “The Python Source”, which
is becoming increasingly true in 2000
http://www.pythonlabs.com/

PythonWare complements the digest you’re reading with the daily
python url
http://www.pythonware.com/daily

comp.lang.python.announce announces new Python software. Be sure
to scan this newly-revitalized newsgroup at least weekly.
http://deja.com/group/comp.lang.python.announce

Andrew Kuchling writes marvelous summaries twice a month of the
action on the python-dev mailing list, where the future of Python
is truly determined
http://www.kuchling.com/python/dev/

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

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

Cetus does much of the same
http://www.cetus-links.de/oo_python.html

Python FAQTS
http://python.faqts.com/

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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