From: claird@Starbase.NeoSoft.COM (Cameron Laird)
Subject: README: Python-URL! - the weekly guide to Python resources (Oct 19)
Date: 19 Oct 1998 11:11:24 -0500
Let us know how this weekly digest of Python-related news and references
can best serve you.
Along with considerable aestheticism, Mike Orr provides a
table of pertinent documentation formats for consideration
by those automating Python's manuals
http://www.dejanews.com/getdoc.xp?AN=402608663
Tim Peters reminds those interested in allied topics of
Doc-Sig
http://www.python.org/sigs/doc-sig/
Markus Fleck reports that ILU has gone Open-Source in its
licensing
http://www.dejanews.com/getdoc.xp?AN=402747103
It's not just a better language, it's a way of life. Michael
Christopher Vanier and Gordon McMillan explain how prototyping
with Python is qualitatively distinct from other development
practices
http://www.dejanews.com/getdoc.xp?AN=401682216
Processing command-line arguments is like maintaining your
crankcase oil: while you don't get to add it to your resume,
it's best to do it efficiently and reliably. The usual
suspects--Andrew Kuchling, Fredrik Lundh, Ivan Van Laningham,
and M.-A. Lemburg--illustrate that Python is more than capable
in this regard
http://www.dejanews.com/getdoc.xp?AN=401903735
MagicLight is an ambitious GPLed animation tool with plans for
ray tracing, radiosity, scanline rendering, and more. Python
scripts it
http://home.bip.net/mikael_aronsson/
LLNL PyGraphics documentation has been updated
http://www.dejanews.com/getdoc.xp?AN=400773204
Fredrik Lundh concisely points to advice on threading with
Tkinter
http://www.dejanews.com/getdoc.xp?AN=400958315
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
Python Consortium is emerging as an independent nexus of activity
http://www.python.org/consortium
Python To-Do List aims to anticipate some of Python's future direction
http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/todo.py
Python Journal is nearly ready with its first 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
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