Python-URL! - 1999/11/02

by David Ascher - DejaNews: [1]

Today is election day in the United States. Here are the winners from a much simpler yet equally non-scientific selection process:

• The Python Consortium is started! Hewlett-Packard and LLNL provides the marquee status and the big bucks, Digital Creations the wildly successful application, Interet quietly chips in, along with Foretec Seminars, the first organization that had a check in hand! http://www.python.org/consortium/
• Michel Pelletier (of Digital Creations) and Dan York (of LinuxCare) announce that they are writing a Zope book for O'Reilly and Associates http://www.zope.org/Members/michel/ZopeBook/index_html/index_html
• Jan Walter announces some scripts for Blender, a computer graphics rendering tool, with very nice pictures to boot http://www.q-bus.de/Blender/
• David S. Harrison puts forth code which formats number for human consumption (see DN542270123)
• Scot Hacker explains how good scripting BeOS is http://www.byte.com/column/BYT19991026S0001
• Tim Peters sort of sorts out some of the sort issues sorted out between 1.5.1 and 1.5.2 (see DN541957314)
• The same Tim accounts for a surprising 'feature' involving testing the object identity of immutable objects which puzzled Pearu Peterson and yours truly http://www.python.org/pipermail/matrix-sig/1999-November/003106.html