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 Previous - (U)se the (R)esource, (L)uke! - messages are listed here: http://www.dejanews.com/dnquery.xp?QRY=~g%20comp.lang.python%20Python-URL%21 or http://www.altavista.digital.com/cgi-bin/query?pg=q&what=news& text=yes&q=%2B%22comp.lang.python%22+%2B%22Python-URL%21%22&search=Search or http://www.reference.com/cgi-bin/pn/go.py?search=advanced& querytext=&choice=Search&subj=Python-URL&name=&login=&host=& organization=&groups=&startmonth=May&startday=9&startyear= 1998&endmonth=Dec&endday=19&endyear=1998&verbosity=Terse& ranking=Relevance&choice=Search Suggestions/corrections for next week's posting are always welcome. To receive a new issue of this posting in e-mail each Monday morning, ask <claird@neosoft.com> to subscribe. -- The Python-URL! Team -- Cameron Laird http://starbase.neosoft.com/~claird/home.html claird@NeoSoft.com +1 281 996 8546 FAX