Python-URL! for October 4, 1999

Date: Mon, 4 Oct 1999 16:08:07 -0500 (CDT)
From: David Ascher da@ski.org

Our welcome to readers arriving by way of *Dr. Dobb’s Journal*’s
new sponsorship of Python-URL!

Phil Hughes of *Linux Journal* interviews Guido.
http://207.178.22.52/articles/conversations/005.html

Guido procrastinates on the web and finds a whole slew of Python
books which will soon hit your shelves:
http://www.deja.com/getdoc.xp?AN=530028166

IBM’s website features a nice introduction to Python:
http://www-4.ibm.com/software/developer/library/python101.html

ESR (a.k.a. Eric Raymond) mentions wanting to hack on Python 1.6
as one of this top TODO items:
http://slashdot.org/interviews/99/09/30/1418244.shtml

DistUtils is getting there! Thanks to Greg Ward’s leadership,
version 0.1 is released:
http://www.python.org/sigs/distutils-sig/

The German translation of the Python tutorial is finished:
http://starship.python.net/crew/gherman/publications/tut-de/

There’s activity on the Python in Finance & Accounting
mailing list, with various starts at useful modules:
http://www.egroups.com/group/python-finance

Skip Montanaro provides a tool to find variable names that hide
builtin names. Announcement and URL follow:
http://www.deja.com/getdoc.xp?AN=531134027

http://www.musi-cal.com/~skip/python/hiding.py

Michael Haggerty comes up with a cool trick that even Guido
hadn’t thought of to split the keys and values of a mapping in
separate parallel lists:
http://www.deja.com/getdoc.xp?AN=530510248>/a>
http://www.deja.com/getdoc.xp?AN=530683849

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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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