Dr. Dobb's Python-URL! - weekly Python news and links (Mar 12)

[Oleg Broytmann]

    Guido van Rossum announces Python Software Foundation
        http://www.prnewswire.com/cgi-bin/stories.pl?ACCT=104&STORY=/www/story/03-06-2001/0001442061&EDATE=
    
    Reports from The Ninth International Python Conference
        http://groups.yahoo.com/group/python-list/message/127037
        http://www.amk.ca/python/writing/ipc9.html
        http://weblogs.userland.com/zopeNewbies/2001/03/06
        http://python.oreilly.com/news/pythonday1_0301.html
        http://python.oreilly.com/news/pythonday2_0301.html
        http://python.oreilly.com/news/pythonday3_0301.html
    
    wxPython = Python + wxWindows
        http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/library/l-wxpy/?dwzone=linux?open&l=252,t=gr,p=wxPython
    
    PythonWare PY20 distribution for Windows and Linux (rpm)
    Includes PythonWare Image Library 1.1.1, PythonWare Sound Toolkit,
    Tkinter 8.3.2, SOAPLIB, XML-RPC, and more
        http://www.pythonware.com/products/python/index.htm
    
    PyTREX is a Python implementation of TREX, an XML schema language
        http://pytrex.sourceforge.net/
    
    D'Arcy J.M. Cain merges PyGreSQL into PostgreSQL tree
        http://www.postgresql.org/mhonarc/pgsql-announce/2001-03/msg00001.html
    
    Andy Dustman moves MySQLdb to SourceForge
        http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=70801
    
    Rafal Smotrzyk posts python cgi syntax highlighter
        http://groups.yahoo.com/group/python-list/message/126756
    
    Jean-Luc Fontaine releases tclpython-2.0
        http://groups.yahoo.com/group/python-list/message/127517
    
    David Mertz annonces preliminary releases of sql2dtd.py and sql2xml
        http://groups.yahoo.com/group/python-list/message/127572
    
    
    Zope:
    
    Security alert and hotfix
        http://lists.zope.org/pipermail/zope-announce/2001-March/000385.html
    
    
    Hot threads of the week:
    
    The demise of 'from foo import *' and its implications
        http://groups.google.com/groups?lr=&group=comp.lang.python.*&safe=off&ic=1&th=239b31b698e5477f&seekd=918627400
    I come to praise .join, not to bury it
        http://groups.google.com/groups?num=25&lr=&group=comp.lang.python.*&safe=off&th=f5fa895f69b1b7c0&ic=1&seekd=918606249
    Can Python replace Visual Basic? Should it?
        http://groups.google.com/groups?lr=&group=comp.lang.python.*&safe=off&ic=1&th=68d5c86d6069b39f&seekd=917743230
    Can anyone recomend a good intoduction to C
        http://groups.google.com/groups?lr=&safe=off&th=555b54918c7bb1de&ic=1&seekd=918083102
    learning C
        http://groups.google.com/groups?lr=&group=comp.lang.python.*&safe=off&ic=1&th=8368cac8a98ecb9c&seekd=916271275
    Urgent Question about Python licensing
        http://groups.google.com/groups?lr=&group=comp.lang.python.*&safe=off&ic=1&th=1c57c3a40ae385a2&seekd=915908166


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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 once every
      other week.
	  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


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