Python-URL! - 2000/03/27

by Fredrik Lundh - DejaNews: [1]

• ComputerWorld Canada: 'Python Puts the Squeeze' http://www.itworldcanada.com/cw/archive/cw16-05/cw_wtemplate.cfm?filename=c165sb1.htm
• UCSC Extension: Python Programming Course http://www.ucsc-extension.edu/knowledge_is_timeless/qd/softlist.taf?function=detail

New releases:

• Stacey Verner: POVTalk -- a natural language based 3D scene generator: http://homepages.ihug.co.nz/~synopsis/computing/main.html
• FourThought: new versions of 4DOM, 4XPath and 4XSLT. http://fourthought.com/4Suite/4DOM/ http://fourthought.com/4Suite/4XPath/ http://fourthought.com/4Suite/4XSLT/
• Georg Mischler: Python for Autocad (release 0.2) (see DN597100850)
• Duncan Grisby: omniORB for Python (pre-release 2) (see DN596902633)

Hints, tips, and other useful stuff seen on the newsgroup:

• Gordon McMillan: How to implement synchronized blocks in Python: (see DN598532061)
• Fredrik Lundh: How to figure out the event name inside a Tkinter event callback: (see DN597839028)
• Michael Hudson: How to calculate SHA hashes: (see DN598658648)
• Fredrik Lundh: An Asynchronous Whois Client: (see DN598407343)
• Travis Oliphant: Signal Processing with Numerical Python (see DN597424795)
• Tim Peters: Citizens, Virgins, and Turds -- all you ever wanted to know about Python's dictionary implementation: (see DN597157519)
• And finally, Steven Majewski tells us the true story behind the Python SPAM conferences: (see DN598401775)