QOTW "Implementations are always preferred over rhetoric." - Robert Brewer
"The programmers you'll be able to hire to work on a Java project won't be
as smart as the ones you could get to work on a project written in Python." -
Paul Graham
http://www.paulgraham.com/gh.html
Colin J. Williams shows Mizrandir how to subclass numarray's arrays.
http://groups.google.com/groups?threadm=df3955c3.0408140908.1b9bfb63%40posti...
Hoang Do receives various suggestions how to drop into the interpreter
from a running script.
http://groups.google.com/groups?threadm=mailman.1679.1092569474.5135.python-...
Kyle Root asks for help arranging a dependency tree of Python modules
and receives both theoretical background information on the problem
and code implementing a "topological sort".
http://groups.google.com/groups?threadm=6ccff37a.0408111831.6eb25a4e%40posti...
Timothy Fitz starts a discussion of the differences between Python's
generators (an overwhelming success) and coroutines.
http://groups.google.com/groups?threadm=972ec5bd.0408141032.385fe115%40posti...
Fazer learns that he has competition in the area of scripts
that retrieve weather forecasts from the web.
http://groups.google.com/groups?threadm=6491b0ab.0408121917.5103b770%40posti...
Coming from a C++ background, Olivier Parisy feels uneasy with the
use of exceptions to control program flow in non-exceptional
situations. Peter Hansen and several others tell him not to worry.
http://groups.google.com/groups?threadm=411775aa%240%2417867%24626a14ce%40ne...
Roman Suzi has a clear vision of Python 3.0's design process in 2015.
http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=mailman.1672.1092553249.5135.python-lis...
We resist all urges to say more about decorators or white space.
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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.
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
Brett Cannon continues the marvelous tradition established by
Andrew Kuchling and Michael Hudson 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/
The Python Business Forum "further[s] the interests of companies
that base their business on ... Python."
http://www.python-in-business.org
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
Cetus collects Python hyperlinks.
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://python.sourceforge.net/peps/pep-0042.html
The online Python Journal is posted at pythonjournal.cognizor.com.
editor@pythonjournal.com and editor@pythonjournal.cognizor.com
welcome submission of material that helps people's understanding
of Python use, and offer Web presentation of your work.
*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.pytho...
Previous - (U)se the (R)esource, (L)uke! - messages are listed here:
http://www.ddj.com/topics/pythonurl/
http://purl.org/thecliff/python/url.html (dormant)
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.
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