Python-URL! – weekly Python news and links (Feb 20)

Date: Tue, 20 Feb 2001 18:58:19 -0600 (CST)
From: Oleg Broytmann phd@phd.russ.ru
To: Dr.Dobb’s.Python-URL.distribution@starbase.neosoft.com
Newsgroups: comp.lang.python
Subject: Dr. Dobb’s Python-URL! – weekly Python news and links (Feb
20)

Michael Hudson continues Python-dev Summaries after AMK. Thanks,
Mike!
http://lwn.net/daily/pydev-20010215.php3

Pete Shinners announces new version (0.9) of pygame

http://groups.google.com/groups?q=ANN:+pygame-0.9&hl=en&lr=&safe=off&rnum=1&ic=1

LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySql, and Python) in action
http://linuxpr.com/releases/3326.html

Suchandra S Thapa moves Siphon project to SourceForge

http://groups.google.com/groups?q=Suchandra+S+Thapa+Re:+CPAN+functionality+for+python&hl=en&lr=&safe=off&rnum=1&ic=1

Mark Hammond announces new version of win32com that allows you
to implement any COM interface decribed in a type library, either
IDispatch based or not

http://groups.google.com/groups?q=Mark+Hammond+COM+support+for+vtable+based+interfaces&hl=en&lr=&safe=off&rnum=1&ic=1

ActiveState invites nominations for scripting community
heroes

http://www.activestate.com/Corporate/Communications/Releases/Awards

Moop project (MUD, Object Oriented, Pythonic) is now hosted at
SourceForge
http://moop.sourceforge.net/

/F, as usual, shows an excellent snippet of code. This time it
is GlobDirectoryWalker for doing recursive globbing

http://groups.google.com/groups?q=Fredrik+Lundh+Re:+recursing+glob&hl=en&lr=&safe=off&rnum=1&ic=1

Dustin Boswell explains how to compile https support into
Python2.0

http://groups.google.com/groups?q=Dustin+Boswell+how+to+compile+https+support+into+Python2.0&hl=en&lr=&safe=off&rnum=1&ic=1

David Mertz: Book Roundup

http://gnosis.cx/cgi/txt2html.cgi?source=http://gnosis.cx/publish/programming/charming_python_12.txt

Fredrik Lundh points to TryType (freetype) support for PIL

http://groups.google.com/groups?q=Fredrik+Lundh+PIL+Fonts&hl=en&lr=&safe=off&rnum=1&ic=1

Carel Fellinger show how to handle overloading in OO manner

http://groups.google.com/groups?q=Carel+Fellinger+Re:+Can+methods+functions+overloaded&hl=en&lr=&safe=off&rnum=1&ic=1

Steven D. Arnold announces updated version of Pure Python
Encryption with fixed IDEA implementation

http://groups.google.com/groups?q=Steven+D.+Arnold+ANN:+Pure+Python+Encryption+%5BUPDATE%5D&hl=en&lr=&safe=off&rnum=1&ic=1

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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 traditional center
of Pythonia
http://www.python.org
Notice especially the master FAQ
http://www.python.org/doc/FAQ.html

PythonWare complements the digest you’re reading with the daily
python url
http://www.pythonware.com/daily

comp.lang.python.announce announces new Python software. Be sure
to scan this newly-revitalized newsgroup at least weekly.

http://groups.google.com/groups?oi=djq&as_ugroup=comp.lang.python.announce

Michael Hudson continues Andrew Kuchling’s marvelous tradition
of summarizing action on the python-dev mailing list twice a
month.
http://starship.python.net/crew/mwh/summaries/

http://www.amk.ca/python/dev

The Vaults of Parnassus ambitiously collect Python resources
http://www.vex.net/~x/parnassus/

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

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

Archive probing trick of the trade:

http://groups.google.com/groups?oi=djq&as_ugroup=comp.lang.python&num=100

Previous – (U)se the (R)esource, (L)uke! – messages are listed
here:
http://purl.org/thecliff/python/url.html

or

http://groups.google.com/groups?oi=djq&as_q=+Python-URL!&as_ugroup=comp.lang.python

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