The holiday week brought Pythondom three nice new shiny packages: Markus F.X.J. Oberhumer announces that Version 3.10 of PySol is here (128 solitaire card games in one!): http://wildsau.idv.uni-linz.ac.at/mfx/pysol.html Kevin Dahlhausen announces pyhints - a script that scans Python source and builds a hint script for VIM (prompts you with function signatures): http://www.deja.com/getdoc.xp?AN=563701938 Paul Sheer announces KOALA 0.9.0, a database / GUI forms package for postgres and Gnome (uses Python 1.5.1): http://www.deja.com/getdoc.xp?AN=565059802 Bernard Herzog uncovers the reason why maintaining two Python installations on Linux is difficult: http://www.deja.com/getdoc.xp?AN=563559697 Ng Pheng Siong provides a nice overview what must be done to use urllib with differnt sorts of firewalls: http://www.deja.com/getdoc.xp?AN=563817592 In the Windows / COM world, we got two nice overviews: Eugene Goodrich provides hints for those doing ASP coding: http://www.deja.com/getdoc.xp?AN=564839534 John Nielsen (via Mark Hammond) offers help to those stuck with administering Exchange on NT (or using Python/COM with ADSI): http://www.deja.com/getdoc.xp?AN=563607231 Andrew M. Kuchling updates his "Python warts" page to reflect the most recent rounds of discussion on Python's shortcomings: http://starship.python.net/crew/amk/python/warts.html ======================================================================== 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 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 Python To-Do List anticipates some of Python's future direction http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/todo.py The Vaults of Parnassus ambitiously collects Python resources http://www.vex.net/~x/parnassus/ 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 Previous - (U)se the (R)esource, (L)uke! - messages are listed here: http://purl.org/thecliff/python/url.html or http://www.dejanews.com/dnquery.xp?QRY=~g%20comp.lang.python%20Python-URL%21 Suggestions/corrections for next week's posting are always welcome. http://www.egroups.com/list/python-url-leads/ To receive a new issue of this posting in e-mail each Monday morning, ask <claird@neosoft.com> to subscribe. Mention "Python-URL!". -- The Python-URL! Team-- Dr. Dobb's Journal (http://www.ddj.com) is pleased to participate in and sponsor the "Python-URL!" project. == Cameron Laird <claird@NeoSoft.com> Business: http://www.Phaseit.net Personal: http://starbase.neosoft.com/~claird/home.html -- ----------- comp.lang.python.announce (moderated) ---------- Article Submission Address: python-announce@python.org Python Language Home Page: http://www.python.org/ Python Quick Help Index: http://www.python.org/Help.html ------------------------------------------------------------