Date: Mon, 22 May 2000 17:17:33 -0500 (CDT)
Subject: Dr. Dobb's Python-URL! - weekly Python news and links (May 22)
From: "Andrew M. Kuchling" <akuchlin@mems-exchange.org>

    Words to live by:  "the registry sucks, but ...  a global
    environment sucks even more!"
        http://x44.deja.com/getdoc.xp?AN=623411718
        http://x44.deja.com/getdoc.xp?AN=623726469

    Jeff Kunce installs Python for network sharing
        http://starship.python.net/crew/jjkunce/netinstall/python_network_setup.html

    GvR announces that the Python CVS tree has been moved to SourceForge.
    This makes it possible to give external developers checkin privileges.
        http://www.python.org/pipermail/python-list/2000-May/058080.html

    A page on using Python from Delphi:
        http://www.multimania.com/marat/delphi/python.htm        

    Peter Milliken announces Python support for ELSE, which adds
    language-specific templates to Emacs:
        http://members.xoom.com/pmilliken

    Francois Pinard postes interesting code snippets.
    He calculates the fraction closest to a decimal number:
        http://www.python.org/pipermail/python-list/2000-May/057402.html 
    and converts nsgmls output to an in-memory tree:
        http://www.python.org/pipermail/python-list/2000-May/057442.html  

    Speculation about Python 3000, and the mooted possibility of
    introducing case-insensitivity, lead to a lengthy discussion.  (Since
    this is comp.lang.python, it's a discussion and not a flamewar.)  You
    can start following the thread from the following posting:
        http://www.python.org/pipermail/python-list/2000-May/057876.html

    A few noteworthy posts in the thread:
    GvR, on the rationale for the potential change:
        http://www.python.org/pipermail/python-list/2000-May/057990.html  

    Fredrik Lundh, on the Alice work that gave rise to the idea:
        http://www.python.org/pipermail/python-list/2000-May/058031.html

    Francois Pinard explains his disagreement:
        http://www.python.org/pipermail/python-list/2000-May/058044.html

    "3 years is a long time", by A.M. Kuchling:
        http://www.python.org/pipermail/python-list/2000-May/058053.html 


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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 FAQTS
          http://python.faqts.com/

      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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