Date: Wed, 17 Nov 1999 05:23:37 -0600 (CST)
From: “Gordon McMillan” <<a
href=”mailto:gmcm@hypernet.com”>gmcm@hypernet.com>
Python-URL! – the (approximately) weekly digest of news and
snippets from the Python community.
For the CORBA-inclined, there was great news out of AT&T
Labs, Cambridge. In
http://www.deja.com/getdoc.xp?AN=546873219
Duncan Grisby announced omniORB, a free C++ ORB conforming to the
OMG’s (draft) Python mappings.
http://www.uk.research.att.com/omniORB/omniORBpy/
Robin Dunn announces release 2.1.11 of wxPython, a wrapper for
the full-featured and snappy cross-platform GUI wxWindows.
http://www.deja.com/getdoc.xp?AN=549145965
In a series of mysterious and understated messages,
including
http://www.deja.com/getdoc.xp?AN=548355817
an awesome new compendium of Python resource links is divulged:
http://www.vex.net/~x/parnassus.
The highly dynamic author and maintainer can be referred to as
“Tim Middleton”, for those who are old-fashioned about that sort of
thing.
Jeffrey Kunce shares his configuration for doing a shared NT
network installation of python:
http://www.deja.com/getdoc.xp?AN=547109447
http://starship.python.net/crew/jjkunce/
There were a couple messages on Python in the big time: Paul
Everitt in
http://www.deja.com/getdoc.xp?AN=546857881
points us to an article about the merger of eGroups and
Onelist:
http://www.thestandard.com/articles/display/0,1449,7543,00.html
While Fredrik in
http://www.deja.com/getdoc.xp?AN=546861601
points to an article on Searchbutton.com
http://cnbc.com/commentary/commentary_full_story_stocks.asp?StoryID=6926
Speaking of big-time, Skip Montanaro talks about the
configuration of one high volume Python-powered website: his own
Musi-Cal site:
http://www.deja.com/getdoc.xp?AN=546536571
Finally, from the “what-the?” dept., the eff-bot comments on
Latin-1 and other strange characters in Python:
http://www.deja.com/getdoc.xp?AN=546828364
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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