Python-URL! - 1999/10/04

by David Ascher - DejaNews: [1]

Our welcome to readers arriving by way of *Dr. Dobb's Journal*'s new sponsorship of Python-URL!

• Phil Hughes of *Linux Journal* interviews Guido http://207.178.22.52/articles/conversations/005.html
• Guido procrastinates on the web and finds a whole slew of Python books which will soon hit your shelves (see DN530028166)
• IBM's website features a nice introduction to Python http://www-4.ibm.com/software/developer/library/python101.html
• ESR (a.k.a. Eric Raymond) mentions wanting to hack on Python 1.6 as one of this top TODO items http://slashdot.org/interviews/99/09/30/1418244.shtml
• DistUtils is getting there! Thanks to Greg Ward's leadership, version 0.1 is released http://www.python.org/sigs/distutils-sig/
• The German translation of the Python tutorial is finished http://starship.python.net/crew/gherman/publications/tut-de/
• There's activity on the Python in Finance & Accounting mailing list, with various starts at useful modules http://www.egroups.com/group/python-finance
• Skip Montanaro provides a tool to find variable names that hide builtin names. Announcement and URL follow (see DN531134027) http://www.musi-cal.com/~skip/python/hiding.py
• Michael Haggerty comes up with a cool trick that even Guido hadn't thought of to split the keys and values of a mapping in separate parallel lists (see DN530510248) (see DN530683849)

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