Date: Mon, 27 Mar 2000 18:23:32 -0600 (CST)
Subject: Dr. Dobb's Python-URL! - weekly Python news and links (Mar 27)
From: "Fredrik Lundh" <effbot@telia.com>

    ComputerWorld Canada: 'Python Puts the Squeeze'
        http://www.itworldcanada.com/cw/archive/cw16-05/cw_wtemplate.cfm?filename=c165sb1.htm

    UCSC Extension: Python Programming Course
        http://www.ucsc-extension.edu/knowledge_is_timeless/qd/softlist.taf?function=detail

New releases:
    Stacey Verner: POVTalk -- a natural language based 3D
    scene generator:
        http://homepages.ihug.co.nz/~synopsis/computing/main.html

    FourThought: new versions of 4DOM, 4XPath and 4XSLT.
        http://fourthought.com/4Suite/4DOM/
        http://fourthought.com/4Suite/4XPath/
        http://fourthought.com/4Suite/4XSLT/

    Georg Mischler: Python for Autocad (release 0.2)
        http://www.deja.com/=dnc/getdoc.xp?AN=597100850

    Duncan Grisby: omniORB for Python (pre-release 2)
        http://www.deja.com/=dnc/getdoc.xp?AN=596902633

Hints, tips, and other useful stuff seen on the newsgroup:
    Gordon McMillan: How to implement synchronized blocks
    in Python:
        http://www.deja.com/=dnc/getdoc.xp?AN=598532061

    Fredrik Lundh: How to figure out the event name inside
    a Tkinter event callback:
        http://www.deja.com/=dnc/getdoc.xp?AN=597839028

    Michael Hudson: How to calculate SHA hashes:
        http://www.deja.com/=dnc/getdoc.xp?AN=598658648

    Fredrik Lundh: An Asynchronous Whois Client:
        http://www.deja.com/=dnc/getdoc.xp?AN=598407343

    Travis Oliphant: Signal Processing with Numerical Python
        http://www.deja.com/=dnc/getdoc.xp?AN=597424795

    Tim Peters: Citizens, Virgins, and Turds -- all you ever
    wanted to know about Python's dictionary implementation:
        http://www.deja.com/=dnc/getdoc.xp?AN=597157519

    And finally, Steven Majewski tells us the true story behind
    the Python SPAM conferences:
        http://www.deja.com/=dnc/getdoc.xp?AN=598401775


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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

      eff-bot's complements this digest with his daily python url
          http://hem.passagen.se/eff/url.htm

      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

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

      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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