Dr. Dobb's Python-URL! - weekly Python news and links (Nov 6)

[Grant Edwards]

    Johannes Nix posts a brief overview of graphics packages and
    requests advice
        http://deja.com/=dnc/getdoc.xp?AN=688345444
    
    Janko Hauser replies with a additional suggestion.
        http://deja.com/=dnc/getdoc.xp?AN=688348989
    
    Jason Cunliffe suggests looking at Blender for game programming.
        http://deja.com/=dnc/getdoc.xp?AN=688907500
    
    Steve Holden posts a utility to list functions, classes, and
    variabled from libraries.
        http://deja.com/=dnc/getdoc.xp?AN=688966613
    
    Alex Martelli explains text search/replace methods.
        http://deja.com/=dnc/getdoc.xp?AN=689031090
        http://deja.com/=dnc/getdoc.xp?AN=689168550


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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
      although PythonLabs.com bills itself as "The Python Source",
      which is becoming increasingly true in 2000
	  http://www.pythonlabs.com/

      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://deja.com/group/comp.lang.python.announce

      Andrew Kuchling writes marvelous summaries twice a month of
      the action on the python-dev mailing list, where the future
      of Python is truly determined
	  http://www.kuchling.com/python/dev/

      The Vaults of Parnassus ambitiously collects 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://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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