Dr. Dobb's Python-URL! - weekly Python news and links (Feb 20)

[Oleg Broytmann]

    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


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