From: David Ascher <da@ski.org>
Subject: Dr. Dobb's Python-URL! - weekly Python news and links (Oct 29)
Date: 29 Oct 1999 12:45:58 -0500

The Python world is hopping this week, with some high-profile
announcements:

    Two books out this week!  Fredrik Lundh (a.k.a. eff-bot) published
    his guide to the standard Python library as an eMatter volume:
        http://www.pythonware.com/people/fredrik/librarybook.htm
  
    David Beazley releases a great summary of the essential Python
    information in his most excellent book (I know, I reviewed it):
         http://www.deja.com/getdoc.xp&AN=540981804

    Frank Willison is still pushing Python and Zope at ORA, in very
    sneaky ways:
         http://www.oreilly.com/frank/rossum_1099.html
         http://www.oreilly.com/frank/

    The Python Jobs board is live, and already populated with quite a
    few job offers, some at marquee companies, some at intriguing
    startups:
         http://www.python.org/Jobs.html

    Marc-Andre Lemburg bit the bullet and with help from many, has a
    module which gives much more information than sys.platform:
         http://starship.skyport.net/~lemburg/platform.py

    There's an interesting discussion on whether multimethods
    (a.k.a. multiple dispatch) could and should be used in Python.
         http://www.deja.com/getdoc.xp&AN=540981803
         http://www.deja.com/getdoc.xp&AN=542008708

    Barry Warsaw releases JPython 1.1b4, fixing bugs and increasing
    speed both:
         http://www.jpython.org


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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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