Python-URL! - 1999/09/27

by David Ascher - DejaNews: [1]

Python grows up in several ways this week:

• The standard Python documentation is available in book form by toExcel.com, and the royalties go to the PSA. According to Guido they're nicely done http://www.toexcel.com/bookstore/book_detail.asp?isbn=1583483756 http://www.toexcel.com/bookstore/book_detail.asp?isbn=158348373X http://www.toexcel.com/bookstore/book_detail.asp?isbn=1583483748
• Barry Warsaw releases JPython 1.1b3, which once again allows optional access to non-public Java class members http://www.jpython.org/
• Comp.lang.python.announce is flooded by announcements of new software http://www.egroups.com/listsaver/python-announce-list/
• Greg Ewing implements the extended call syntax that Guido had agreed to consider for 1.6 (he wins the grammar-hacker award of the month!) (see DN528523696)
• In a thread on Donn Cave, master of fork & friends, points us to his tool to invoke shell commands on Unix and get the output (see DN529129001)
• The IDLE part of the CVS tree is now mirrored nightly, for those who want IDLE but don't care for the rest of the Python CVS tree http://starship.python.net/crew/da/idledists/
• Dr. Dobb's Journal's Python Resource CD-ROM is a nice collection of Python distributions, tools, software, documentation and articles http://www.digitalriver.com/dr/v2/ec_MAIN.Entry10?SP=10023&PN=1&V1=164146&xid=2823
• The Python-URL! and Tcl-URL! archives are back, thanks to Jean-Claude Wippler http://mini.net/cgi-bin/url/
• Reminder: The Python Conference is accepting paper submissions until the end of the month http://www.python.org/workshops/2000-01/cfp.html (see DN525600398)