Python-URL! - 1998/10/19

by Cameron Laird - DejaNews: [1]

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• Along with considerable aestheticism, Mike Orr provides a table of pertinent documentation formats for consideration by those automating Python's manuals (see DN402608663)
• Tim Peters reminds those interested in allied topics of Doc-Sig http://www.python.org/sigs/doc-sig/
• Markus Fleck reports that ILU has gone Open-Source in its licensing (see DN402747103)
• It's not just a better language, it's a way of life. Michael Christopher Vanier and Gordon McMillan explain how prototyping with Python is qualitatively distinct from other development practices (see DN401682216)
• Processing command-line arguments is like maintaining your crankcase oil: while you don't get to add it to your resume, it's best to do it efficiently and reliably. The usual suspects--Andrew Kuchling, Fredrik Lundh, Ivan Van Laningham, and M.-A. Lemburg--illustrate that Python is more than capable in this regard (see DN401903735)
• MagicLight is an ambitious GPLed animation tool with plans for ray tracing, radiosity, scanline rendering, and more. Python scripts it http://home.bip.net/mikael_aronsson/
• LLNL PyGraphics documentation has been updated (see DN400773204)
• Fredrik Lundh concisely points to advice on threading with Tkinter (see DN400958315)