Dr. Dobb's Python-URL! - weekly Python news and links (Dec 7)
Gordon McMillan
gmcm@hypernet.com
Tue, 07 Dec 99 19:55:18 GMT
While the Mars Lander appears to be dead, python.org came back to
life within 48 hrs (creating, however, considerable disruption in
the flow of it's mail lists).
Mike Fletcher gives a summary of Python 3D projects:
http://www.deja.com/getdoc.xp?AN=556166543
Norman Vine expands:
http://www.deja.com/getdoc.xp?AN=556247544
In a thread on XML-RPC, Fredrik contributes pointers
to info on SOAP (basically, an expansion of XML-RPC):
http://www.deja.com/getdoc.xp?AN=556542767
Interest in type safety has made a comeback after
nearly a year's hiatus: David Jeske <jeske@egroups.net>
gives us a pointer to his PyLint:
http://www.deja.com/getdoc.xp?AN=557442122
http://www.chat.net/~jeske/Projects/PyLint/download/pylint-19991121.py
And the Type-SIG has come back to life:
http://www.python.org/sigs/types-sig/
vim users get loads of suggestions in the thread:
http://www.deja.com/viewthread.xp?AN=555058129
A new feature on the Job's board page:
http://www.python.org/Jobs.html
lets you search certain job search websites for
Python jobs.
The origins of the tim-bot and eff-bot are exposed:
http://www.deja.com/getdoc.xp?AN=238330113
http://www.deja.com/getdoc.xp?AN=336718323
http://www.deja.com/getdoc.xp?AN=358532977
Reminder of this year's conference:
http://www.python.org/workshops/2000-01/
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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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