Date: Wed, 3 May 2000 19:35:15 -0500 (CDT)
Subject: Dr. Dobb's Python-URL! - weekly Python news and links (May  3)
From: "Fredrik Lundh" <effbot@telia.com>

In the news:
    Linux Journal: Python Supplement (great cover!)
        http://www2.linuxjournal.com/lj-issues/issue73/lstoc.html

    Linux Journal: Python Book Reviews
        http://www2.linuxjournal.com/lj-issues/issue73/3851.html

    Slashdot Book Reviews: Python Programming On Win32
        http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=00/04/17/1147228

    O'Reilly Network: "Introducing the Python DevCenter"
        http://www.oreillynet.com/python/
        http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/python/2000/04/14/python-intro.html

New and updated software:
    Sean McGrath: RAX: An XML Database API
        http://www.xml.com/pub/2000/04/26/rax/index.html
        http://www.digitome.com/rax.html

    Michael Wallace: weblib -- "a library for Python
    programmers who want to build interactive websites"
        http://www.deja.com/=dnc/getdoc.xp?AN=615853452

    Robin Dunn: wxPython 2.1.15 (new version)
        http://www.deja.com/=dnc/getdoc.xp?AN=616372702

    John Aycock: SPARK 0.6.1 -- "the Scanning, Parsing, and
    Rewriting Kit" (new version)
        http://www.deja.com/=dnc/getdoc.xp?AN=616402299

    Jeremy Hylton: Pisces 1.0a1 -- "a Python implementation
    of the SPKI/SDSI Certificate standard"
        http://www.deja.com/=dnc/getdoc.xp?AN=616561664

    Andrew Kuchling: Oedipus -- "a tool for maintaining a
    hierarchical directory of web links"
        http://oedipus.sourceforge.net/

    Chuck Esterbrook: Webware for Python
        http://writewithme.com/Webware/

    Mark Hammond: win32all-131 for Python 1.6a2
        http://www.deja.com/=dnc/getdoc.xp?AN=613581824

    Martin Baker: Coroutines for Python
        http://www.egroups.com/message/python-coro/43

    Duncan Booth: WBMP support for PIL
        http://www.deja.com/=dnc/getdoc.xp?AN=613087878

Seen on the newsgroup:
    Michael Reilly: How to convert GIF files to MIME messages
        http://www.deja.com/=dnc/getdoc.xp?AN=613933625

    Nick Mathewson: How to generate all strings that match a
    given regular expression
        http://www.deja.com/=dnc/getdoc.xp?AN=613435463

    And finally, Martijn Faassen tells you a story from the
    really early days of Python:
        http://www.deja.com/=dnc/getdoc.xp?AN=614140340


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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 center of Pythonia
          http://www.python.org

      eff-bot's complements this digest with his daily python url
          http://hem.passagen.se/eff/url.htm

      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

      The Vaults of Parnassus ambitiously collects Python resources
          http://www.vex.net/~x/parnassus/   

      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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