From: Cameron Laird <claird@neosoft.com>
Subject: README: Python-URL! - the weekly guide to Python resources (Aug 23)
Date: 23 Aug 1999 00:07:44 -0500

Next week:  more working code, less territorial posturing.

    Quantitatively, the Pynews of the month was a conflict appar-
    ently about whether P-languages are in conflict.  timbot
    left no doubt about his ownership of the intellectual high
    ground with a 160-proof exposition of Perl and Python as
    comparably inferior to SNOBL.  Pathos, concision, the yacht
    race, public double dereferencing--the only thing it lacks
    is a gratuitous reference to Erlang
	http://x36.deja.com/=dnc/getdoc.xp?AN=513662476

    The great Pythonist social event of the year is the Open
    Source Software Convention, now in progress.  Early reports
    have it "well-organized"; David Ascher's tutorial was
    successful.  Look next week for more detailed summaries
	http://conferences.oreilly.com/python/

    Logistics of the Eighth PyCon are largely set.  Presenta-
    tion proposals are still being accepted
        http://www.python.org/workshops/2000-01/index.html

    A builder.com columnist reinforces the current run on
    pugnacity with his characterization of Python as "The Most
    Elegant Scripting Language You'll Probably Never Use"
        http://buzz.builder.com/cgi-bin/WebX?14@101.PwqganhkenJ^0@.ee7bc67/0

    Christian Tismer shows what "dynamic module generation"
    can mean in the hands of a master
	http://x46.deja.com/=dnc/getdoc.xp?AN=512188711

    In the process of giving the one-line answer to the FAQ
    about trapping users who click on the go-away-X, Guido
    and Fredrik Lundh discover themselves trapped in one of
    their time machine's loops, as they jumble inspiration,
    intention, implementation, and documentation
	http://x40.deja.com/=dnc/getdoc.xp?AN=515152096

    Another high point of the language wars is Tom Christian-
    sen's mention of Nigel Chapman's book.  Although two
    years old and on a subject other than Python, it offers a
    lot from which we all can learn
	http://www.perl.com/language/critiques/ppc.html

    Prolific M.-A. Lemburg's mxProxy provides in its 0.2 re-
    lease not just fine-grained access control to objects,
    but also powerful weak reference methods
	http://x25.deja.com/=dnc/getdoc.xp?AN=514893032


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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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