From:	 "Steve Holden" 
To:	 Dr.Dobb's.Python-URL.distribution@starbase.neosoft.com
Subject: Dr. Dobb's Python-URL! - weekly Python news and links (Apr 23)
Date:	 Mon, 23 Apr 2001 11:10:52 -0500 (CDT)

    With little further fanfare Guido announces Python Release 2.1:
        http://groups.google.com/groups?ic=1&th=3e551cf46b3b876a
    
    ActiveState announce ActivePython 2.1, with a package installer
    to allow individual packages to be installed on demand:
        http://groups.google.com/groups?ic=1&th=2a3453db51b8e19
    
    Jason Tishler announces the availability of Cygwin Python 2.1:
        http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2001-04/msg01074.html
    
    Greg Chapman points out that using nested scopes in IDE applications
    is not as straightforward as it might be, and receives assurances this
    was known about in advance (but might have been flagged more loudly):
        http://groups.google.com/groups?ic=1&th=f7b8a60bfc799ee8
    
    Mark 'Kamikaze' Hughes announces an early pre-release of the UMBRA
    role-playing game framework, and inspires a long discussion of open
    vs. closed source and related licensing issues:
        http://groups.google.com/groups?ic=1&th=22715916726b9b4b
    
    Hernan Foffani produces the Python Shelf, combining many useful chunks
    of Python-related documentation in one Windows HTML help file:
        http://www.orgmf.com.ar/condor/pytstuff.html
    
    Cayce Ullman announces release 0.7 of SOAP.py, a SOAP implementation
    including a SOAP proxy and a SOAP server framework.
        http://groups.google.com/groups?ic=1&th=8acd8e5bad6fc003
    
    Cameron Laird features the benefits of the pydoc application:
        http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/python/2001/04/18/pydoc.html
    
    A development thread about class methods finds its way on to the general
    newsgroup, offering insight into the detail of development decisions and
    giving most of us reason to be grateful the python-dev list exists:
        http://groups.google.com/groups?ic=1&th=55835007a03620ad
    
    A thread comparing Tkinter and wxPython ends up revealing that at least
    *some* people believe that "PyQt is free for Windows and Unix."
        http://groups.google.com/groups?ic=1&th=684bc36cb8dd2138
    
    Dave Cole provides a new release of his Sybase module which moves closer
    towards compliance with the Python Database API, version 2.0:
        http://www.object-craft.com.au/projects/sybase/
    
    Thomas Heller explains how to start the debugger automatically when an
    uncaught exception occurs:
        http://groups.google.com/groups?ic=1&th=8dc6242615879373
    
    comp.lang.python has one of its happily infrequent flamewars.
    Unaccountably your compiler cannot find a single reference to quote :o)
    

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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 once every
    other week.
        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/

    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 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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