Date: Mon, 3 Apr 2000 10:58:59 -0500 (CDT)
Subject: Dr. Dobb's Python-URL! - weekly Python news and links (Apr  3)
From: "Fredrik Lundh" <effbot@telia.com>

The Software Development conference in San Jose turned out to be a major
Python event.
    The conference site:
        http://www.sdexpo.com/

    Guido's keynote covered the CP4E project.  The slides haven't
    been posted yet, but they were based on this classic talk:
        http://www.python.org/doc/essays/ppt/acm-cp4e/index.htm

    Some media coverage.  Like it or not, but Python is hot! :-)
        http://www.ddj.com/articles/2000/0050/0050toc.htm
        http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/network/2000/03/30/softwaredev.html

    Lots of great talks about Python.  Among others, David Ascher
    talked about JPython and popular tools and extensions:
        http://www.activestate.com/sd2000.htm

Activities:
    Colorado Linux Info Quest 2000: Python and Zope BOF Sessions
        http://www.thecliq.org/bofs.html

    UCSC Extension: Python Programming Course [corrected link]
        http://www.ucsc-extension.edu/knowledge_is_timeless/qd/softlist.taf?function=detail&X_Number=X444.3

Releases:
    Python 1.6 alpha 1 is here! (first alpha, very rough in places)
        http://www.python.org/1.6/

    Guido tells us what's in the new release, sort of.  Note the
    posting date (for the true story, see the above site):
        http://www.deja.com/=dnc/getdoc.xp?AN=605330122

    Christian Tismer: Stackless Python 1.1 and Continuations 0.8
        http://www.deja.com/=dnc/getdoc.xp?AN=603584578

    Fred Drake: Updated Python 1.5.2 Documentation
        http://www.python.org/doc/

    Andrew Kuchling: Perfect Minimal Hash Generator
        http://starship.python.net/crew/amk/python/code/perfect-hash.html

    Ka-Ping Yee: Roundup - a simple and effective bug-tracking system
         http://www.lfw.org/python/

    Phil Thompson: PyQt/PyKDE v0.11 (python bindings for Qt and KDE)
        http://www.deja.com/=dnc/getdoc.xp?AN=603477664

    William Park: Simple Numerical Recipes in Python
        http://www.python.org/topics/scicomp/recipes_in_python.html

    ReportLab Inc: ReportLab Release 0.90 (PDF generator library)
        http://www.deja.com/=dnc/getdoc.xp?AN=603415004

    Digital Creations: Zope 2.1.6
        http://www.zope.com/Products/Zope/2.1.6/Zope_216_release

Bits and pieces from the newsgroup:
    Mark Hammond: How to determine the Ethernet HW Address (on
    Windows, requires PythonWin 130):
        http://www.deja.com/=dnc/getdoc.xp?AN=603363272

    Michael Hudson: How to use continuations in Stackless
    Python:
        http://www.deja.com/=dnc/getdoc.xp?AN=600190793

    Gordon McMillan: On Python's startup performance:
        http://www.deja.com/=dnc/getdoc.xp?AN=599756252


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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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