From:	 Cameron Laird <Cameron@Lairds.com>
To:	 Dr.Dobb's.Python-URL.distribution@starbase.neosoft.com
Subject: Dr. Dobb's Python-URL! - weekly Python news and links (Oct 24)
Date:	 Wed, 24 Oct 2001 11:34:58 -0500 (CDT)

    Martin von Loewis prints Unicode characters, correctly.
	http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&frame=right&th=4ebacc23215578b

    In a discussion comparing string methods with string
    functions, David Bolen illustrates how wise performance
    people think about timing measurements.
	http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&frame=right&th=7c7a842b67944513

    Stephen Figgins rhapsodizes the pleasures of interactive
    Python.
	http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/python/2001/10/11/pythonnews.html

    Donn Cave and Lucio Torre offer implementations of poll() in
    terms of select(), in both C and Python.
	http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&frame=right&th=dcc03957ae758bd9

    Chimezie and Uche Ogbuji explain Python-based XML development.
	http://www-105.ibm.com/developerworks/education.nsf/
	xml-onlinecourse-bytitle/
        28BEDEE3E7219EB386256AE300743B69?OpenDocument
    
    ActiveState releases PYXPCOM.
	http://www.ActiveState.com/Products/Komodo/PYXPCOM

    Zope's Page Templates match benefits with PHP, ASP, and so on.
	http://advogato.org/article/350.html
    *Zope Web Application Construction Kit* is a new book which
    promises to make Zope newcomers successful.
	http://www.samspublishing.com/detail_sams.cfm?item=0672321335

    Boudewijn Rempt's PyQt book is ready.
	http://stage.linuxports.com/pyqt/book1.htm


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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 continued Andrew Kuchling's marvelous tradition
    of summarizing action on the python-dev mailing list once every
    other week, into July 2001.  Any volunteers to re-start this
    valuable series?
        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/

    The old Python "To-Do List" now lives principally in a
    SourceForge reincarnation.
	http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?atid=355470&group_id=5470&func=browse
	http://python.sourceforge.net/peps/pep-0042.html

    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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