Date: Mon, 28 Aug 2000 14:02:41 -0500 (CDT)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.python
Subject: Dr. Dobb's Python-URL! - weekly Python news and links (Aug 28)
From: Grant Edwards <claird@neosoft.com>

    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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