Python-URL! for May 3, 2000

Date: Wed, 3 May 2000 19:35:31 -0500 (CDT)
From: Fredrik Lundh effbot@telia.com
Newsgroups: comp.lang.python
Subject: Dr. Dobb’s Python-URL! – weekly Python news and links (May
3)

In the news: Linux Journal: Python Supplement (great cover!)
http://www2.linuxjournal.com/lj-issues/issue73/lstoc.html

Linux Journal: Python Book Reviews
http://www2.linuxjournal.com/lj-issues/issue73/3851.html

Slashdot Book Reviews: Python Programming On Win32
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=00/04/17/1147228

O’Reilly Network: “Introducing the Python DevCenter”
http://www.oreillynet.com/python/

http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/python/2000/04/14/python-intro.html

New and updated software: Sean McGrath: RAX: An XML Database
API
http://www.xml.com/pub/2000/04/26/rax/index.html

http://www.digitome.com/rax.html

Michael Wallace: weblib — “a library for Python programmers who
want to build interactive websites”
http://www.deja.com/=dnc/getdoc.xp?AN=615853452

Robin Dunn: wxPython 2.1.15 (new version)
http://www.deja.com/=dnc/getdoc.xp?AN=616372702

John Aycock: SPARK 0.6.1 — “the Scanning, Parsing, and
Rewriting Kit” (new version)
http://www.deja.com/=dnc/getdoc.xp?AN=616402299

Jeremy Hylton: Pisces 1.0a1 — “a Python implementation of the
SPKI/SDSI Certificate standard”
http://www.deja.com/=dnc/getdoc.xp?AN=616561664

Andrew Kuchling: Oedipus — “a tool for maintaining a
hierarchical directory of web links”
http://oedipus.sourceforge.net/

Chuck Esterbrook: Webware for Python
http://writewithme.com/Webware/

Mark Hammond: win32all-131 for Python 1.6a2
http://www.deja.com/=dnc/getdoc.xp?AN=613581824

Martin Baker: Coroutines for Python
http://www.egroups.com/message/python-coro/43

Duncan Booth: WBMP support for PIL
http://www.deja.com/=dnc/getdoc.xp?AN=613087878

Seen on the newsgroup:

Michael Reilly: How to convert GIF files to MIME messages
http://www.deja.com/=dnc/getdoc.xp?AN=613933625

Nick Mathewson: How to generate all strings that match a given
regular expression
http://www.deja.com/=dnc/getdoc.xp?AN=613435463

And finally, Martijn Faassen tells you a story from the really
early days of Python:
http://www.deja.com/=dnc/getdoc.xp?AN=614140340

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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

eff-bot’s complements this digest with his daily python url
http://hem.passagen.se/eff/url.htm

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/

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

Archive probing trick of the trade:

http://www.dejanews.com/dnquery.xp?QRY=&DBS=2&ST=PS&defaultOp=AND&LNG=
ALL&format=threaded&showsort=date&maxhits=100&groups=comp.lang.python

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