Dr. Dobb's Python-URL! - weekly Python news and links (Nov 16)

QOTW:  "You can tell everything is well in the world of dynamic languages
when someone posts a question with nuclear flame war potential like 'python
vs. ruby' and after a while people go off singing hymns about the beauty
of Scheme..." - vdrab

"ctypes completely rocks." - Grant Edwards

    Michael Lange endows Tkinter with a Tree widget:
        http://mail.python.org/pipermail/tkinter-discuss/2005-November/000556.html

    Fuzzyman has written a valuable commentary on urllib2.
    How do we collectively get a reference to this in the
    tutorial and/or library reference?
        http://www.voidspace.org.uk/python/articles/urllib2.shtml

    What *is* good style for Pythonic symbolic constants?
        http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/browse_thread/thread/f09d1d77d605bdba/

    Diez Roggisch and others describe typical limits to the
    powers of GUI toolkits, and hint at ways to circumvent
    those limits:
        http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/browse_thread/thread/75ac35b00714fd38/

    Edgewall Software arranges the tutorial on a tree some 
    readers find convenient:
        http://projects.edgewall.com/python-sidebar/html/toc-tutorial.html

    Ben Finney asks serious questions about code re-use:
        http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/browse_thread/thread/23dbb109fb831e8f/