Python-URL! - 1998/12/28

by Mike Orr - DejaNews: [1]

• Python 1.5.2 beta 1 released. (The production version is still 1.5.1.) Includes IDLE, an integrated development environment requires Tkinter (see DN425074958)
• Webpage lists Python articles, books and documentation in LANGUAGES OTHER THAN ENGLISH!! Current offerings are in Esperanto, French, German, Japanese, Russian and Spanish http://www.python.org/doc/NonEnglish.html
• The "Database Topic Guide" webpage summarizes ways to access relational databases from Python. DBM/shelve-style persistence is also discussed http://www.python.org/topics/database/
• Webpage summarizing the String-SIG, plus links to resources regarding regular expressions, string parsing and XML http://starship.skyport.net/crew/amk/python/string.html
• PySol 2.01 (19 solitaire games, including 3 new ones) requires Tkinter http://wildsau.idv.uni-linz.ac.at/mfx/pysol.html
• exported.py module handles files exported from databases (e.g., tab-delimited) in an object-oriented manner (see DN425076712)
• Httpdapy 1.6b (Embed Python into Apache; bugfix + documentation update) (see DN426100767)
• Linbot 1.0b1 ("the professional Site Management Tool for webmasters") (see DN426102456)
• Error in Python 1.5.2b1 on Win95/98/NT: "import Tkinter" causes "ImportError: DLL load failed: The specified procedure could not be found." In both cases posted it was caused by leaving an old version of Tcl/Tk installed. You must eradicate all traces of any existing versions (stray Tk80.dll files, registry entries) and then reinstall Tcl/Tk 8.0.4 from scratch. Or at least copy the new \Tcl\Bin\Tk80.Dll into \WinNT\System32 to overwrite the old version there. (Subjects: "Dll not found?", "Similar Problem in NT, needs different", "Similar problem in NT RESOLVED") (thread [2])