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From:	 "Cameron Laird" <claird@neosoft.com>
To:	 Dr.Dobb's.Python-URL.distribution@starbase.neosoft.com
Subject: Dr. Dobb's Python-URL! - weekly Python news and links (May  7)
Date:	 Mon, 7 May 2001 10:38:00 -0500 (CDT)

    Frederic Giacometti announces JPE as a Java-Python hybrid with
    advantages in certain situations over Jython
	http://sourceforge.net/projects/jpe
	http://groups.google.com/groups?ic=1&th=ec94c7f54b7ebc14

    Ka-Ping Yee and Guido publish the long-awaited iterator PEP
	http://python.sourceforge.net/peps/pep-0234.html

    COM exposes fixed-point arithmetic as currency values.  Python's
    core has no good correspondence--yet.  While waiting for change,
    it's still possible to persuade Python to make the right calculations
	http://groups.google.com/groups?ic=1&th=989644d1a6bc8be5

    Fredrik Lundh offers a convenient definition for rotating
    graphical text with PIL
	http://mail.python.org/pipermail/image-sig/2001-May/001452.html

    Paul Prescod, Carlos Ribeiro, Michael Hudson, and timbot explain
    the sense of xrange
	http://groups.google.com/groups?ic=1&th=282bcfd9c7c666bc

    2.1 is available for MacOS
	http://www.cwi.nl/~jack/macpython.html

    Stephen Figgins mentions Redfoot and 4RDF as Python-based RDF
    utilities
	http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/python/2001/05/02/pythonnews.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 traditional
    center of Pythonia
        http://www.python.org
    Notice especially the master FAQ
        http://www.python.org/doc/FAQ.html

    PythonWare complements the digest you're reading with the
    daily python url
         http://www.pythonware.com/daily  

    comp.lang.python.announce announces new Python software.  Be
    sure to scan this newly-revitalized newsgroup at least weekly.
        http://groups.google.com/groups?oi=djq&as_ugroup=comp.lang.python.announce

    Michael Hudson continues Andrew Kuchling's marvelous tradition
    of summarizing action on the python-dev mailing list once every
    other week.
        http://starship.python.net/crew/mwh/summaries/
        http://www.amk.ca/python/dev

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

    Much of Python's real work takes place on Special-Interest Group
    mailing lists
        http://www.python.org/sigs/

    The Python Software Foundation has replaced the Python Consortium
    as an independent nexus of activity
        http://www.python.org/psf/

    Cetus does much of the same
        http://www.cetus-links.de/oo_python.html

    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 tricks of the trade:
        http://groups.google.com/groups?oi=djq&as_ugroup=comp.lang.python&num=100
        http://groups.google.com/groups?meta=site%3Dgroups%26group%3Dcomp.lang.python.*

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