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CfP: IEEE Software Special Issue on Rapid Application Development with Dynamically Typed Languages
by Laurence Tratt Sept. 18, 2006

Sept. 18, 2006

============================================================================ IEEE Software Special Issue Rapid Application Development with Dynamically Typed Languages Call for Papers Publication: September/October 2007 Submission Deadline: 1 February 2007 ============================================================================ Dynamically typed programming languages were once seen as slow, unreliable, and suitable only for small throw-away tasks. However, their ability to aid rapid systems development and to facilitate the pervasive, mobile, and frequently updated systems that are increasingly in demand in the modern world has led to their stock rising considerably. While developers are ever keen to find out more about the details of dynamic programming languages, managers are interested in finding out how they can complement existing approved languages without diluting their organizations' technical focus. We thus solicit contributions in several areas related to dynamic programming languages. Topics of interest include: * Dynamic programming languages "in use". * Organizations' experiences in integrating dynamic programming languages into their existing language menagerie. * Experiences of and techniques for using dynamic programming languages effectively (including efficiency and scalability concerns). * How dynamic programming languages have evolved and how they might develop in the future. * New techniques in challenging areas such as metaprogramming, reflection, dynamic reconfigurability, and mobility. For detailed author guidelines, please visit: http://www.computer.org/software/author.htm Manuscripts must not exceed 5,400 words including figures and tables, which count for 200 words each. Submissions in excess of these limits may be rejected without refereeing. The articles we deem within the theme's scope will be peer-reviewed and are subject to editing for magazine style, clarity, organization, and space. For more information, please contact the Guest Editors Laurence Tratt and Roel Wuyts at dyn(a)tratt.net.

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ANN: Webware 0.9.2 released
by Christoph Zwerschke Sept. 17, 2006

Sept. 17, 2006

Webware 0.9.2 has been released. This release of Webware for Python includes a couple of fixes and improvements of WebKit, MiddleKit, MiscUtils and WebUtils (see the respective release notes). Webware for Python is a suite of Python packages and tools for developing object-oriented, web-based applications. The suite uses well known design patterns and includes a fast Application Server, Servlets, Python Server Pages (PSP), Object-Relational Mapping, Task Scheduling, Session Management, and many other features. Webware is very modular and easily extended. Webware for Python is well proven and platform-independent. It is compatible with multiple web servers, database servers and operating systems. Check out the Webware for Python home page at http://www.w4py.org

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[ANN] Movable Python Mega-Pack and MovablePython.NET
by Fuzzyman Sept. 17, 2006

Sept. 17, 2006

One of the most important new features of `Movable Python <http://www.voidspace.org.uk/python/movpy/>`_ is that it can work with multiple interpreters. That can be other distributions of **Movable Python**, an installed version of Python, IronPython, or in fact any executable (or batch file or a Python script) [#]_. If you have multiple **Movable Python** distributions, you can test programs with any version of Python from a single interface. You can also use the same interface to launch interactive interpreter sessions for any of the interpreters. The **Movable Python Mega-Pack** comes with all four distributions of Movable Python (Python 2.2, 2.3, 2.4 and 2.5). It also comes with `IronPython 1.0 Final <http://www.codeplex.com/IronPython>`_. It is pre-configured with these interpreters (the default is Python 2.4). For a screenshot of the mega-pack and MovablePython.NET, see : http://www.voidspace.org.uk/python/weblog/arch_d7_2006_09_16.shtml#e464 The **Movable Python Mega-Pack** costs £11.99 [#]_, around the cost of two and a half distributions. You also get a couple of freebies. You can obtain the Movable Python Mega-Pack from : `The Movable Python Groups Page <http://voidspace.tradebit.com/groups.php>`_ `Nanagram <http://www.voidspace.org.uk/python/nanagram.html>`_ the anagram maker is a fun program for making anagrams. It's especially fun to make anagrams of your friends names. This normally costs £5 for the full version. The other freebie is **MovablePython.NET**. This is an experimental build of Movable Python, written in C#. It isn't a stand-alone interpreter, but a GUI launcher. It lacks many of the features of the 'standard' Movable Python, but has a nicer GUI and a few extra features. These include : * Auto detecting any installed Python * Assigning system wide hot keys to scripts * Drag and drop This version will probably provide the basis of a GUI update for the next version of Movable Python. If you purchase the Mega-Pack, you have full access to all the individual distributions (including free updates for a year), **Nanagram** and **MovablePython.NET** and a single package containing all the distributions. This is pre-configured, and weighs in at 80mb. .. [#] So Movable Python can act as a GUI for any program, including passing command line arguments. You may never need to use the command line again. .. [#] Once Python 2.5 final is released, this will also be raised: so be quick.

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[ANN] Movable Python 2.0.0 Beta 1
by Fuzzyman Sept. 17, 2006

Sept. 17, 2006

There is a new version of `Movable Python <http://www.voidspace.org.uk/python/movpy/>`_ available. This is available for **Movable Python** for Python 2.2.3, 2.3.5, 2.4.3 and 2.5rc2 from : `The Movable Python Groups Page <http://voidspace.tradebit.com/groups.php>`_ What is Movable Python ================== Movable Python is a portable distribution of Python for windows, designed to be run off a USB stick or computers that don't have Python installed. It features an IDE (Pythonwin and IDLE are included - but you can also use SPE), and a GUI launcher. It can be configured to use multiple interpreters from a single interface, including acting as a GUI for any executable. It has a host of other features (like logging all output from files, enabling psyco for all scripts, etc). See the following link for a list of all the new features in Movable Python 2.0.0 : http://www.voidspace.org.uk/python/weblog/arch_d7_2006_07_15.shtml#e390 For an overview of the most important features (with screenshots) see : http://www.voidspace.org.uk/python/weblog/arch_d7_2006_07_22.shtml#e396 Other uses for Movable Python include testing programs with different versions of Python, and providing clean install 'sandboxes' for testing programs. It is also an ideal launcher for IronPython. What's New in 2.0.0 Beta 1 ==================== 'Console normal' didn't work for the Python 2.5 distribution (and possibly others, although it seemed to work with Movable Python for Python 2.4). This is now fixed. Added console handling for IronPython (if the interpreter is 'ipy.exe' or 'ipyw.exe' then the appropriate one will be used when 'Console handling Normal' is selected.) The IPOFF (IPython off) option wasn't acknowledged when launching the interactive interpreter from the GUI. A bug in py2exe 0.6.5 (an incompatibility with Python 2.5) would cause the interactive interpreter to exit after an exception, and possibly other problems. This is fixed. Got rid of the error dialog in movpyw and the 'movpyw.exe.log' file. Changed logging to 'Log Mode' in main menu. Fixed configuration for IDE for Python 2.5 version. Movable Python now exits with the same exit code as any script it runs. Improvements in traceback handling. .. note:: Pythonwin for Python 2.4 and 2.5, may need ``mfc71.dll``. You can download this from: `here (534k) <http://www.voidspace.org.uk/mfc71.d11.zip>`_. This will automatically be included in future distributions. {sm;:oops:} It's still not too late to buy Movable python for Python 2.5 at the reduced price, before the release of Python 2.5 final. There are still some issues with Pythonwin to be fixed, and the documentation update, before **Movable Python 2.0.0 Final** can be released.

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ANN: Amara XML Toolkit 1.1.9
by Uche Ogbuji Sept. 16, 2006

Sept. 16, 2006

http://uche.ogbuji.net/tech/4suite/amara http://cheeseshop.python.org/pypi/Amara/ ftp://ftp.4suite.org/pub/Amara/ Changes since Amara 1.1.7: * Add support for EasyInstall; other packaging & installer improvements - Note: allinone package eliminated * Add trimxml command line utility (for running reports on XML files) * Switch to Docbook for documentation source * Bindery: Add support for dict-like accessors * Tenorsax: Restore support for PySax * Scimitar: Implement abstract rules * Scimitar: Update Schematron namespace to ISO * Scimitar: Implement phases * Scimitar: Support Schematron queryBinding attribute: XPath, XSLT, EXSLT * Add binderytools.fixup_namespaces function * Add binderytools.quick_xml_scan function * Fix APIs for adding comments and PIs * Fix domtools.abs_path to be more namespace aware * Bug fixes Amara XML Toolkit is a collection of Python tools for XML processing-- not just tools that happen to be written in Python, but tools built from the ground up to use Python's conventions and take advantage of the many advantages of teh language. Amara builds on 4Suite [http://4Suite.org], but whereas 4Suite offers more on literal implementation of XML standards in Python, Amara focuses on Pythonic idiom. It provides tools you can trust to conform with XML standards without losing the familiar Python feel. The components of Amara are: * Bindery: data binding tool (a very Pythonic XML API) * Scimitar: implementation of the ISO Schematron schema language for XML; converts Schematron files to Python scripts * domtools: set of tools to augment Python DOMs * saxtools: set of tools to make SAX easier to use in Python * Flextyper: user-defined datatypes in Python for XML processing There's a lot in Amara, but here are highlights: Amara Bindery: XML as easy as py -------------------------------- Bindery turns an XML document into a tree of Python objects corresponding to the vocabulary used in the XML document, for maximum clarity. For example, the document <monty> <python spam="eggs">What do you mean "bleh"</python> <python ministry="abuse">But I was looking for argument</python> </monty> Becomes a data structure such that you can write binding.monty.python.spam In order to get the value "eggs" or binding.monty.python[1] In order to get the value "But I was looking for argument". There are other such tools for Python, and what makes Bindery unique is that it's driven by a very declarative rules-based system for binding XML to the Python data. You can register rules that are triggered by XPattern expressions specialized binding behavior. It includes XPath support and supports mutation. Bindery is fairly efficient, using SAX to generate bindings. Scimitar: Schematron for Pytthon -------------------------------- Scimitar is an implementation of ISO Schematron that compiles a Schematron schema into a Python validator script. You typically use scimitar in two phases. Say you have a schematron schema schema1.stron and you want to validate multiple XML files against it, instance1.xml, instance2.xml, instance3.xml. First you run schema1.stron through the scimitar compiler script, scimitar.py: scimitar.py schema1.sch The generated file, schema1-stron.py, can be used to validate XML instances: python schema1-stron.py instance1.xml Which emits a validation report. Amara DOM Tools: giving DOM a more Pythonic face ------------------------------------------------ DOM came from the Java world, hardly the most Pythonic API possible. Some DOM-like implementations such as 4Suite's Domlettes mix in some Pythonic idiom. Amara DOM Tools goes even further. Amara DOM Tools feature pushdom, similar to xml.dom.pulldom, but easier to use. It also includes Python generator-based tools for DOM processing, and a function to return an XPath location for any DOM node. Amara SAX Tools: SAX without the brain explosion ------------------------------------------------ Tenorsax (amara.saxtools.tenorsax) is a framework for "linerarizing" SAX logic so that it flows more naturally, and needs a lot less state machine wizardry. License ------- Amara is open source, provided under the 4Suite variant of the Apache license. See the file COPYING for details. Installation ------------ Amara 1.1.9 requires Python 2.3 or more recent and 4Suite-XML 1.0rc4 or more recent. The easiest way to install it is: easy_install amara If this does not work you are probably not set up for easy_install and I suggest you follow the simple instructions at http://peak.telecommunity.com/DevCenter/EasyInstall easy_install will automatically take care of installing dependencies for you. If you prefer not to use easy_install, then grab a 4Suite-XML package morerecent than 1.0rc4 and install that, then install the Amara package using the usual: python setup.py install Or a Windows installer, or other method. -- Uche Ogbuji Fourthought, Inc. http://uche.ogbuji.net http://fourthought.com http://copia.ogbuji.net http://4Suite.org Articles: http://uche.ogbuji.net/tech/publications/

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ANN: 4Suite XML 1.0rc4
by Uche Ogbuji Sept. 15, 2006

Sept. 15, 2006

Today we release 4Suite XML 1.0 release candidate 4, now available from Sourceforge and ftp.4suite.org. Thanks to all the testers, there are a number of important improvements over 1.0rc3. Please continue to help us test 4Suite to ensure a high-quality 1.0 final release. 4Suite is split into three separate packages: 4Suite XML - XML, XPath, XSLT, related technologies and support libraries 4Suite RDF - RDF processing libraries and stand-alone DBMS 4Suite Repository - XML and RDF repository This is a release of only the first component. Highlights of changes in 4Suite XML since 1.0rc3 -- * Installer improvements * Ft/Xml/Xslt/Exslt/DateTime.py: Implemented default values for right-truncated date/times in format-date() Missing values from left-truncated date/times are now replaced by '' * Bug fixes, documentation improvements 4Suite XML is a comprehensive library for XML processing. It is implemented in Python and C and supports XML (SAX-like and DOM-like), XPath, XSLT, RELAX NG, XUpdate, XInclude, XPointer, and more. The manual is included in the documents, or you can browse it online at http://uche.ogbuji.net/tech/4suite/etc/CoreManual.html For general information, see: http://4suite.org http://uche.ogbuji.net/tech/4Suite/ For the files, see: ftp://ftp.4suite.org/pub/4Suite/ Mirrored on www.fourthought.com: http://www.fourthought.com/files/4Suite/4Suite_XML-1.0rc4-py2.3-win32.egg http://www.fourthought.com/files/4Suite/4Suite_XML-1.0rc4-py2.4-win32.egg http://www.fourthought.com/files/4Suite/4Suite_XML-1.0rc4-py2.5-win32.egg http://www.fourthought.com/files/4Suite/4Suite-XML-1.0rc4.tar.bz2 http://www.fourthought.com/files/4Suite/4Suite-XML-1.0rc4.tar.gz http://www.fourthought.com/files/4Suite/4Suite-XML-1.0rc4.zip http://www.fourthought.com/files/4Suite/4Suite-XML-1.0rc4.win32-py2.2.exe http://www.fourthought.com/files/4Suite/4Suite-XML-1.0rc4.win32-py2.3.exe http://www.fourthought.com/files/4Suite/4Suite-XML-1.0rc4.win32-py2.4.exe http://www.fourthought.com/files/4Suite/4Suite-XML-1.0rc4.win32-py2.5.exe http://www.fourthought.com/files/4Suite/4Suite-XML-docs-1.0rc4.tar.bz2 http://www.fourthought.com/files/4Suite/4Suite-XML-docs-1.0rc4.tar.gz http://www.fourthought.com/files/4Suite/4Suite-XML-docs-1.0rc4.zip You can also get the files on Python CheeseShop: http://cheeseshop.python.org/pypi/4Suite-XML/ We usually upload to Sourceforge, and will do so as soon as we can, but server errors have made it impossible for us to complete the file release so far. https://sourceforge.net/projects/foursuite/ https://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=39954 Documentation: In the locations specified above, with filenames of the form 4Suite-XML-docs-1.0rc4.* Release notes -- The current installation directory layout document tells where package files are installed: http://4suite.org/docs/installation-locations.xhtml -- Uche Ogbuji Fourthought, Inc. http://uche.ogbuji.net http://fourthought.com http://copia.ogbuji.net http://4Suite.org Articles: http://uche.ogbuji.net/tech/publications/

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ANNOUNCE: kiwi 1.9.10
by Johan Dahlin Sept. 15, 2006

Sept. 15, 2006

Kiwi is a PyGTK framework for building graphical applications loosely based on MVC Model-View-Controller (MVC) and Allen Holub's Visual proxy [1]. Think of Kiwi as a high-level, object-oriented layer built on PyGTK. Its design is based on real-world experience using PyGTK to develop large desktop applications, which use many concepts common to most graphical applications: multiple windows and dialogs, forms, data persistence, lists and high-level classes that support domain objects directly. Download ======== Grab the latest sources from: http://download.gnome.org/sources/kiwi/1.9/kiwi-1.9.10.tar.gz and the win32 installer from: http://download.gnome.org/binaries/win32/kiwi-1.9.10.win32.exe What's new since 1.9.9? ======================= - API reference and howto included in the tarball - Remove some exessive use of inheritence - A couple of new examples - Mask fixes; alignment and focus (Ronaldo) - win32 installation fixes (Aaron Spike) - Tasklet WaitForCall support (Gustavo) - Add a simple Enum implementation - Add new separated delegates for glade views Features ======== * An MVC-derived framework of classes: * Views, which represent the graphical display * Controllers, which handles user interaction with the widgets in a View. * Delegates, combines a View and a Controller. * Models, which are special mixins for your domain objects * Proxies, special types of Delegate designed to implement forms * Validation: Kiwi supports validation on different levels: data type validation and verification on the Model/Proxy level, View validation and hooks for visually displaying validation state. * ObjectList widget, which provides a higher level abstraction of GtkTreeView and all its classes (GtkTreeModel, GtkTreeViewColumn, GtkCellRenderer) with hooks to easily integrate into the Kiwi Framework. * Mask suport: You can set a mask on entries to force the input to follow a certain standard, such as zip code, social security, ip address * Gazpacho integration for most (non-deprecated) interactive widgets with attributes for handling validation and proxy attributes. * UI Testing framework Features a recorder and a player. The recorder allows you to record different tasks, a script will be saved which will reproduce the actions you made in the interface. * Kiwi Tasklets Tasklet is a small coroutines framework written by Gustavo Carneiro, it was previously known as gtasklets. * PyGTK utilities, to make it easier to add signals and properties to your objects. * i18n translation utilities, to help you translate PyGTK applications, currently depends on gettext and intltool. * and many other things! Requirements ============ Python 2.3 or higher (2.4 recommended) http://www.python.org/ PyGTK 2.6.0 or higher (2.8 recommended) http://www.pygtk.org/ gazpacho 0.6.5 (svn recommenced) http://gazpacho.sicem.biz/ Documentation ============= Kiwi provides API documentation generated by epydoc, it can be found at http://www.async.com.br/projects/kiwi/api/ Included in the tarball are also a number of examples, which serves as a good starting point. Keep in mind that most of them require gazpacho to be installed. Thanks ====== Christian Robottom Reis: Original author and design Lorenzo Gil Sanchez: PyGTK 2.x port Also thanks to the following people which has contributed features or bug reports: Ali Afshar, Gustavo Barbieri, Gustavo Carneiro, David M Cook, Daniel Saran R. da Cunha, Patrick O'Brien, Ronaldo Maia, Evandro Vale Miquelito, Henrique Romano, Sidnei da Silva, Aaron Spike Resources ========= Homepage http://www.async.com.br/projects/kiwi/ Download http://www.async.com.br/projects/kiwi/download/ Repository http://svn.async.com.br/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/kiwi/ Report a bug http://bugs.async.com.br/enter_bug.cgi?product=Kiwi API docs http://www.async.com.br/projects/kiwi/api/ Open bugs http://tinyurl.com/cyrms Mail. list http://www.async.com.br/mailman/listinfo/kiwi/ [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Model-view-controller [2] http://tinyurl.com/2ccch [3] http://epydoc.sourceforge.net/ -- Johan Dahlin <jdahlin(a)async.com.br> Async Open Source

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Ann: FarPy GUIE v0.5.2
by dberlin＠gmail.com Sept. 15, 2006

Sept. 15, 2006

This release includes support for IronPython (Windows forms GUI). http://farpy.holev.com/tools.php About- GUIE (GUI Editor) provides a simple WYSIWYG GUI editor for wxWidgets and IronPython. The program was made in C# and saves the GUI that was created to a XML format I called GUIML. This GUIML is a pretty standard representation of the GUI created with the program with some helpful additions for .NET. Next, GUIE takes these GUIML files and translates it to either wxPython Python code or wxRuby Ruby code (more languages in the future). You may ask yourself why I took the extra step? Why didn't I go straight from C# controls to wxPython code? Why is GUIML necessary? Well, it isn't. It is there simply for people (or maybe I) to take the GUIML and convert it to other languages. This, by effect can convert this tool from a Python GUI editor, to "any programming language with a GUI module" GUI editor. http://farpy.holev.com David

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Toronto Area Python User's Group this Tuesday, 6:30pm
by Mike C. Fletcher Sept. 15, 2006

Sept. 15, 2006

This month we have a special treat, a pre-arranged speaker! Aaron Bentley (of Bazaar-NG fame) will be presenting a talk about the Sass web application wiki. We'll be meeting at the regular time (6:30pm) on the Third Tuesday of the Month (September 19th) at our regular location, the inimitable Linux Caffe (a great place to hack), on the corner of Grace and Harbord Streets. More details: http://web.engcorp.com/pygta/wiki/NextMeeting Have fun all, Mike -- ________________________________________________ Mike C. Fletcher Designer, VR Plumber, Coder http://www.vrplumber.com http://blog.vrplumber.com

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Dr. Dobb's Python-URL! - weekly Python news and links (Sep 14)
by Jack Diederich Sept. 14, 2006

Sept. 14, 2006

QOTW: "Regexps are a brittle tool, best tolerated in small doses." - Tim Peters "Simplicity is prerequisite for reliability" - Edsger W. Dijkstra eval(repr(var)) sometimes works for serialization but don't count on it. http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/browse_thread/thread/71b54c… More than you ever wanted to know about the types of regular expression engines and their history. http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/browse_thread/thread/cd20b4… Folks discuss their favorite libraries that make multiple and parallel processing easier. http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/browse_thread/thread/ba9fe6… Could python be changed to have no reserved keywords? How about we make the color of a variable change its meaning? A romp through PL/I, FORTRAN, and Color Forth. http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/browse_thread/thread/cb0eae… Text editors for writing python. Emacs and vi sit this one out and no flame war erupts. http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/browse_thread/thread/4aff7e… The string 'in' operator implementation is different between 2.4 and 2.5 (in 2.5 it got faster) http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/browse_thread/thread/114846… For small databases almost any will do. Here are suggestions. http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/browse_thread/thread/561450… Releases of Note Python 2.5 Release Candidate 2 - This is your last chance to contribute feedback before 2.5 Final. http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/browse_thread/thread/d2b9d2… XPN 0.6.5 - Multi-platform newsreader written in Python and GTK. http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/browse_thread/thread/9366f9… CoreBio 0.4 - a Python library for bioinformatics and computational biology http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/browse_thread/thread/f28a82… Leo 4.4.1.1 - Leo is a text editor, project manager, and more http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/browse_thread/thread/63a7a5… Upcoming Community Events Plone Conference 2006, October 25-27 (Seattle, Washington) http://plone.org/events/conferences/seattle-2006 Open Source Developers Conference December 5-8 (Melbourne, Australia) http://www.osdc.com.au/ PyCon 2007, February 23-25 (Dallas, TX) http://us.pycon.org/TX2007/HomePage RuPy 2007, April 7-8 (Poznan, Poland) http://rupy.wmid.amu.edu.pl/ ======================================================================== Everything Python-related 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 marvelous daily python url http://www.pythonware.com/daily Mygale is a news-gathering webcrawler that specializes in (new) World-Wide Web articles related to Python. http://www.awaretek.com/nowak/mygale.html While cosmetically similar, Mygale and the Daily Python-URL are utterly different in their technologies and generally in their results. For far, FAR more Python reading than any one mind should absorb, much of it quite interesting, several pages index much of the universe of Pybloggers. http://lowlife.jp/cgi-bin/moin.cgi/PythonProgrammersWeblog http://www.planetpython.org/ http://mechanicalcat.net/pyblagg.html comp.lang.python.announce announces new Python software. Be sure to scan this newsgroup weekly. http://groups.google.com/groups?oi=djq&as_ugroup=comp.lang.python.announce Python411 indexes "podcasts ... to help people learn Python ..." Updates appear more-than-weekly: http://www.awaretek.com/python/index.html Steve Bethard, Tim Lesher, and Tony Meyer continue the marvelous tradition early borne by Andrew Kuchling, Michael Hudson and Brett Cannon of intelligently summarizing action on the python-dev mailing list once every other week. http://www.python.org/dev/summary/ The Python Package Index catalogues packages. http://www.python.org/pypi/ The somewhat older Vaults of Parnassus ambitiously collects references to all sorts of 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 Success Stories--from air-traffic control to on-line match-making--can inspire you or decision-makers to whom you're subject with a vision of what the language makes practical. http://www.pythonology.com/python/success The Python Software Foundation (PSF) has replaced the Python Consortium as an independent nexus of activity. It has official responsibility for Python's development and maintenance. http://www.python.org/psf/ Among the ways you can support PSF is with a donation. http://www.python.org/psf/donate.html Kurt B. Kaiser publishes a weekly report on faults and patches. http://www.google.com/groups?as_usubject=weekly%20python%20patch Although unmaintained since 2002, the Cetus collection of Python hyperlinks retains a few gems. http://www.cetus-links.org/oo_python.html Python FAQTS http://python.faqts.com/ The Cookbook is a collaborative effort to capture useful and interesting recipes. http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/Cookbook/Python Among several Python-oriented RSS/RDF feeds available are http://www.python.org/channews.rdf http://bootleg-rss.g-blog.net/pythonware_com_daily.pcgi http://python.de/backend.php For more, see http://www.syndic8.com/feedlist.php?ShowMatch=python&ShowStatus=all The old Python "To-Do List" now lives principally in a SourceForge reincarnation. http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?atid=355470&group_id=5470&func=browse http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0042/ The online Python Journal is posted at pythonjournal.cognizor.com. editor(a)pythonjournal.com and editor(a)pythonjournal.cognizor.com welcome submission of material that helps people's understanding of Python use, and offer Web presentation of your work. del.icio.us presents an intriguing approach to reference commentary. It already aggregates quite a bit of Python intelligence. http://del.icio.us/tag/python *Py: the Journal of the Python Language* http://www.pyzine.com 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.pyth… Previous - (U)se the (R)esource, (L)uke! - messages are listed here: http://www.ddj.com/topic/python/ (requires subscription) http://groups-beta.google.com/groups?q=python-url+group:comp.lang.python*&s… http://purl.org/thecliff/python/url.html (dormant) or http://groups.google.com/groups?oi=djq&as_q=+Python-URL!&as_ugroup=comp.lan… There is *not* an RSS for "Python-URL!"--at least not yet. Arguments for and against are occasionally entertained. Suggestions/corrections for next week's posting are always welcome. E-mail to <Python-URL(a)phaseit.net> should get through. To receive a new issue of this posting in e-mail each Monday morning (approximately), ask <claird(a)phaseit.net> to subscribe. Mention "Python-URL!". Write to the same address to unsubscribe. -- The Python-URL! Team-- Dr. Dobb's Journal (http://www.ddj.com) is pleased to participate in and sponsor the "Python-URL!" project.

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