Date: Tue, 20 Feb 2001 18:58:02 -0600 (CST) Newsgroups: comp.lang.python Subject: Dr. Dobb's Python-URL! - weekly Python news and links (Feb 20) From: Oleg Broytmann <phd@phd.russ.ru> To: Dr.Dobb's.Python-URL.distribution@starbase.neosoft.com 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 ======================================================================== 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 Previous - (U)se the (R)esource, (L)uke! - messages are listed here: http://purl.org/thecliff/python/url.html or http://groups.google.com/groups?oi=djq&as_q=+Python-URL!&as_ugroup=comp.lang.python Suggestions/corrections for next week's posting are always welcome. [http://www.egroups.com/list/python-url-leads/ is hibernating. Just e-mail us ideas directly.] To receive a new issue of this posting in e-mail each Monday morning, ask <claird@neosoft.com> to subscribe. Mention "Python-URL!". -- The Python-URL! Team-- Dr. Dobb's Journal (http://www.ddj.com) is pleased to participate in and sponsor the "Python-URL!" project.