Python-URL for September 27, 1999

Date: Mon, 27 Sep 1999 10:16:50 -0500 (CDT)
From: David Ascher da@ski.org

Python grows up in several ways this week:

The standard Python documentation is available in book form by
http://www.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=164146x=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

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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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