Dr. Dobb's Python-URL! - weekly Python news and links (Jan 7)

[Paul Boddie]

    The "official" XML processing suite for Python sees another
    release: PyXML 0.7.
        http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=mailman.1009964102.4152.clpa-moderators%40python.org

    Python 2.2 for Sharp Zaurus has arrived! Zaurus is a Linux/Java-based
    Personal Digital Assistant.
        http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=mailman.1010024104.15697.python-list%40python.org

    DOSSIER publishes Python references.
	http://www.ptf.com/dossier

    Cygwin Python 2.2-1 has also been released - Cygwin provides a "UNIX
    feel" inside Windows.
        http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=mailman.1010164681.26484.clpa-moderators%40python.org

    If generating standalone executables for Windows is of interest,
    py2exe 0.2.7 should prove useful.
        http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=mailman.1010073421.5751.clpa-moderators%40python.org

    And for making sure that your code doesn't hide nasty runtime
    surprises, there's PyChecker v0.8.7.
        http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=mailman.1010355242.18483.clpa-moderators%40python.org

    "cgidocs.py is a CGI-based Viewer for the Python 2.2 Documentation."
        http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=3c356bd6.959101625%40news.isar.de

    There are numerous options for Oracle database connectivity in
    Python. Here's one of them: cx_Oracle 2.4.
        http://groups.google.com/groups?th=343b4254f041ea19

    A recurring topic: is game development a feasible activity for Python?
        http://groups.google.com/groups?th=76033e630f3bb53d

    Is it time to evaluate the different "date and time arithmetic" modules
    available for Python?
        http://groups.google.com/groups?th=4c6698791f9003a0

    Perhaps the time period library, period-0.5, can be used in the
    automation of such periodic re-evaluations!
        http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=mailman.1010355241.18480.clpa-moderators%40python.org

    Meanwhile, the Python Conference (Python 10) News is mounting up.
        http://groups.google.com/groups?th=bf2a234e7ee4a63

    Birds-of-a-Feather (BoF) submissions are now welcome for Python 10.
        http://www.python10.org/p10-callBoFs.html

    "The Tenth International Python Conference, February 4 - 7, 2002 at
    The Hilton Alexandria Mark Center, Alexandria, Virginia"
        http://www.python10.org


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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  
    Mygale is a news-gathering webcrawler that specializes in (new)
    World-Wide Web articles related to Python.
	 http://www.awaretek.com/nowak/mygale.html 
    While cosmetically similar, Mygale and the Daily Python-URL
    are utterly different in their technologies and generally in
    their results.

    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 continued Andrew Kuchling's marvelous tradition
    of summarizing action on the python-dev mailing list once every
    other week, into July 2001.  Any volunteers to re-start this
    valuable series?
        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/

    The Python Software Foundation has replaced the Python Consortium
    as an independent nexus of activity
        http://www.python.org/psf/

    Cetus does much of the same
        http://www.cetus-links.de/oo_python.html

    Python FAQTS
        http://python.faqts.com/

    The old Python "To-Do List" now lives principally in a
    SourceForge reincarnation.
	http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?atid=355470&group_id=5470&func=browse
	http://python.sourceforge.net/peps/pep-0042.html

    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

    Tenth International Python Conference 
        http://www.python10.org            

    Archive probing tricks of the trade:
        http://groups.google.com/groups?oi=djq&as_ugroup=comp.lang.python&num=100
        http://groups.google.com/groups?meta=site%3Dgroups%26group%3Dcomp.lang.python.*

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