From:	 Paul Prescod <paulp@ActiveState.com>
To:	 Dr.Dobb's.Python-URL.distribution@starbase.neosoft.com
Subject: Dr. Dobb's Python-URL! - weekly Python news and links (May 14)
Date:	 Mon, 14 May 2001 22:20:58 -0500 (CDT)

    Bill Gates calls Python, "an extremely well-designed language"!
    No, Bill Gates doesn't, but one of his two partners on the
    first Microsoft BASIC interpreter does.  Monte Davidoff, who
    programmed floating point arithmetic for that first MS product,
    is now into Python.
        http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/18909.html

    Chris Abraham announces foundation of the Zope Python 
    User's Group:
        http://www.zpug.org/

    Mark Lutz, one of Python's writers-in-residence, interviewed
    on O'Reilly.  Slashdot picks up the interview.
        http://python.oreilly.com/news/python_0501.html
        http://slashdot.org/developers/01/05/11/0021241.shtml

    A thread on range-generation shortcuts reveals deep truths about 
    the future of iterators and inconsistencies in Python's
    implementation of filter:
	http://groups.google.com/groups?ic=1&th=771b2135332fffae

    In the same thread, Alex Martelli describes the reason that 
    Python does not include the top index in slices and ranges:
        http://groups.google.com/groups?ic=1&selm=9db4i801beb%40news2.newsguy.com

    Only a few weeks after the release of PyGame, a game-development 
    framework for Python, Pete Shinners releases a game based on it. 
    The game is written in concise, readable Python code:
        http://shredwheat.zopesite.com/solarwolf

    Several people send John Flynn code emulating two of his 
    favorite features from Delphi, property handlers and event 
    handlers.
        http://groups.google.com/groups?ic=1&th=5e36e9393ed06770

    Skip Montanaro asks about converting between 8-bit strings and 
    Unicode strings and learns about the Python's Unicode design. 
        http://groups.google.com/groups?ic=1&th=e05ff0346d9e47d1

    Daniel Klein asks whether Python's survival is dependent on Guido's 
    interest and ability to avoid buses. Various posters describe why 
    Python is safe no matter what happens to any individuals:
        http://groups.google.com/groups?ic=1&th=e0a0d70bc71cedc3

    How do threads, processes, message queues and IDEs interact 
    on Windows? A "Python DoEvents" thread reveals all.
        http://groups.google.com/groups?ic=1&th=771b2135332fffae


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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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