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
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