From:	 Quinn Dunkan <quinn@yak.ugcs.caltech.edu>
To:	 Dr.Dobb's.Python-URL.distribution@starbase.neosoft.com
Subject: Dr. Dobb's Python-URL! - weekly Python news and links (Sep 17)
Date:	 Mon, 17 Sep 2001 09:26:31 -0500 (CDT)

QOTW:  "One of my happiest recent moments was finally coming up
    with a *simple* way to do away with the durned Singleton
    design-pattern ... and finding out that all it takes is
    adding *one* simple statement to __init__ ..."  [Alex Martelli]
    and "I wanted to open an OpenGL window in PythonWin. 
    Apparently this hadn't ever been done before ...  The next
    morning I had received a patch and had a seamless working
    solution.  In fact, I simply cut-and-pasted a C++ OpenGL
    spinning cube sample into my python code ... and it worked!"
    [Ken Seehof]

    Yes, it's c.l.py's turn to have the giant "what does .NET mean
    for the future of our language" discussion.  Here's the original
    question and answer that started it off:
        http://groups.google.com/groups?threadm=3B997A5E.6010801%40bigpond.net.au

    Jon puts code up for critical review.  Andrew Dalke's response
    is a detailed and informative example of how a Python programmer
    might sort out awkward code:
        http://groups.google.com/groups?threadm=9nj0tk%24v2o%241%40slb2.atl.mindspring.net

    Here's a nice summary of various python modules for 3D graphics:
        http://groups.google.com/groups?threadm=wk66aju614.fsf%40lee-morgan.net

    Python has a number of modules for object persistence.  Shelve
    vs. Pickle vs. ZODB:
        http://groups.google.com/groups?threadm=mailman.1000499358.27006.python-list%40python.org

    Alex commits a "brief" and nearly Python-orthogonal tirade about
    what multi-dispatch is good for:
        http://groups.google.com/groups?threadm=9nksof021p1%40enews3.newsguy.com


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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 traditional
    center of Pythonia
        http://www.python.org
    Notice especially the master FAQ
        http://www.python.org/doc/FAQ.html

    PythonWare complements the digest you're reading with the
    daily python url
         http://www.pythonware.com/daily  

    comp.lang.python.announce announces new Python software.  Be
    sure to scan this newly-revitalized newsgroup at least weekly.
        http://groups.google.com/groups?oi=djq&as_ugroup=comp.lang.python.announce

    Michael Hudson continues Andrew Kuchling's marvelous tradition
    of summarizing action on the python-dev mailing list once every
    other week.
        http://starship.python.net/crew/mwh/summaries/
        http://www.amk.ca/python/dev

    The Vaults of Parnassus ambitiously collect Python resources
        http://www.vex.net/~x/parnassus/   

    Much of Python's real work takes place on Special-Interest Group
    mailing lists
        http://www.python.org/sigs/

    The Python Software Foundation has replaced the Python Consortium
    as an independent nexus of activity
        http://www.python.org/psf/

    Cetus does much of the same
        http://www.cetus-links.de/oo_python.html

    Python FAQTS
        http://python.faqts.com/

    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 tricks of the trade:
        http://groups.google.com/groups?oi=djq&as_ugroup=comp.lang.python&num=100
        http://groups.google.com/groups?meta=site%3Dgroups%26group%3Dcomp.lang.python.*

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