Date: Mon, 28 Aug 2000 14:02:54 -0500 (CDT)
From: Grant Edwards claird@neosoft.com
Newsgroups: comp.lang.python
Subject: Dr. Dobb’s Python-URL! – weekly Python news and links (Aug
28)
Luis Forra announces availability of Interbase database adapter
Win32 binary.
http://deja.com/=dnc/getdoc.xp?AN=660587655
Alex Martelli, et al., on how to interface to MS-Access (and
whether you actually want to).
http://deja.com/=dnc/getdoc.xp?AN=660905475
http://deja.com/=dnc/getdoc.xp?AN=660994748
http://deja.com/=dnc/getdoc.xp?AN=661065383
Fiona Czuczman posts updates to FAQTS Python Knowledge Base
http://deja.com/=dnc/getdoc.xp?AN=660963425
http://deja.com/=dnc/getdoc.xp?AN=662182278
http://deja.com/=dnc/getdoc.xp?AN=662220551
http://deja.com/=dnc/getdoc.xp?AN=663360876
Martijn Faassen writes up a nice summary of the “conditionally
call main/test at the end of the module” method of module
organization.
http://deja.com/=dnc/getdoc.xp?AN=661196470
Andreas Jung announces PyStream – a C++ stream emulation.
http://deja.com/=dnc/getdoc.xp?AN=661239888
Timothy O’Malley announces version 1.5 of timeoutsocket.py
http://deja.com/=dnc/getdoc.xp?AN=661423293
Stefan Migowsky posts a patch to send KeyboardInterrupt
Exception to all threads in a Win32 embedded interpreter.
http://deja.com/=dnc/getdoc.xp?AN=661481024
Colin announces version 1.0.0 of maillist.py – a mailing list
manager.
http://deja.com/=dnc/getdoc.xp?AN=661525880
Guido Van Rossum on the license for Python 1.6.
http://deja.com/=dnc/getdoc.xp?AN=661712995
David Ascher announces 1.6 beta release of ActivePython – an
easy-to-use binary Python distribution.
http://deja.com/=dnc/getdoc.xp?AN=661762539
Tim Peters posts [PEP 223] Change the Meaning of x Escapes.
http://deja.com/=dnc/getdoc.xp?AN=661806865
Robin Dunn announces wxPython 2.2.1 for Python 1.5.2 and
1.6b1.
http://deja.com/=dnc/getdoc.xp?AN=661833845
Stephen R. Figgins seeks Python news informants for weekly
column.
http://deja.com/=dnc/getdoc.xp?AN=662052314
Andrew Dalke announces Martel-0.2 – a parser generator.
http://deja.com/=dnc/getdoc.xp?AN=662171006
JP Schnapper-Caseras on Ocularis – A Linux Distribution for the
visually impaired: volunteers needed.
http://deja.com/=dnc/getdoc.xp?AN=662195257
M.-A. Lemburg posts [PEP 224] Attribute Docstrings
http://deja.com/=dnc/getdoc.xp?AN=662392279
Alex Martelli provides an example of building an extension using
VC++6 and Python 1.6b1.
http://deja.com/=dnc/getdoc.xp?AN=662569748
Robert Kern announces Clifford Algebra module for Python.
http://deja.com/=dnc/getdoc.xp?AN=662575210
Jürgen Hermann announces MoinMoin 0.2 – a collaborative
hypertext environment
http://deja.com/=dnc/getdoc.xp?AN=662908139
http://deja.com/=dnc/getdoc.xp?AN=662909241
Robert Roebling announces wxDesigner 1.1, a commercial RAD tool
for wxWindows and wxPython
http://deja.com/=dnc/getdoc.xp?AN=663411983
Everything you want is probably one or two clicks away in these
pages:
Python.org’s Python Language Website is the center of
Pythonia
http://www.python.org
PythonWare complements this digest with the daily python url
http://www.pythonware.com/daily
Much of Python’s real work takes place on Special-Interest Group
mailing lists
http://www.python.org/sigs/
Python Consortium emerges as an independent nexus of
activity
http://www.python.org/consortium
The Vaults of Parnassus ambitiously collects Python
resources
http://www.vex.net/~x/parnassus/
Cetus does much of the same
http://www.cetus-links.de/oo_python.html
Python FAQTS
http://python.faqts.com/
Python To-Do List anticipates some of Python’s future
direction
http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/todo.py
Python Journal is at work on its second issue
http://www.pythonjournal.com
Links2Go is a new semi-automated link collection; it’s
impressive what AI can generate
http://www.links2go.com/search?search=python
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