Date: Mon, 27 Mar 2000 18:23:49 -0600 (CST)
From: Fredrik Lundh effbot@telia.com
Newsgroups: comp.lang.python
Subject: Dr. Dobb’s Python-URL! – weekly Python news and links (Mar
27)
ComputerWorld Canada: ‘Python Puts the Squeeze’
http://www.itworldcanada.com/cw/archive/cw16-05/cw_wtemplate.cfm?filename=c165sb1.htm
UCSC Extension: Python Programming Course
http://www.ucsc-extension.edu/knowledge_is_timeless/qd/softlist.taf?function=detail
New releases: Stacey Verner: POVTalk — a natural language based
3D scene generator:
http://homepages.ihug.co.nz/~synopsis/computing/main.html
FourThought: new versions of 4DOM, 4XPath and 4XSLT.
http://fourthought.com/4Suite/4DOM/
http://fourthought.com/4Suite/4XPath/
http://fourthought.com/4Suite/4XSLT/
Georg Mischler: Python for Autocad (release 0.2)
http://www.deja.com/=dnc/getdoc.xp?AN=597100850
Duncan Grisby: omniORB for Python (pre-release 2)
http://www.deja.com/=dnc/getdoc.xp?AN=596902633
Hints, tips, and other useful stuff seen on the newsgroup:
Gordon McMillan: How to implement synchronized blocks in
Python:
http://www.deja.com/=dnc/getdoc.xp?AN=598532061
Fredrik Lundh: How to figure out the event name inside a Tkinter
event callback:
http://www.deja.com/=dnc/getdoc.xp?AN=597839028
Michael Hudson: How to calculate SHA hashes:
http://www.deja.com/=dnc/getdoc.xp?AN=598658648
Fredrik Lundh: An Asynchronous Whois Client:
http://www.deja.com/=dnc/getdoc.xp?AN=598407343
Travis Oliphant: Signal Processing with Numerical Python
http://www.deja.com/=dnc/getdoc.xp?AN=597424795
Tim Peters: Citizens, Virgins, and Turds — all you ever wanted
to know about Python’s dictionary implementation:
http://www.deja.com/=dnc/getdoc.xp?AN=597157519
And finally, Steven Majewski tells us the true story behind the
Python SPAM conferences:
http://www.deja.com/=dnc/getdoc.xp?AN=598401775
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
eff-bot’s complements this digest with his daily python url
http://hem.passagen.se/eff/url.htm
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
The Vaults of Parnassus ambitiously collects Python
resources
http://www.vex.net/~x/parnassus/
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&g
roups=comp.lang.python
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