QOTW: "We can't really say much more about thread safety than this, we think the interpreter will survive. The rest is up to the programmer." - Donn Cave "Despite the seemingly endless necessity for doing so, it's actually not possible to reverse-engineer intended invariants from staring at thousands of lines of code (not in C, and not in Python code either)." - Tim Peters Marduk wants to use string formatting with an arbitrary iterable instead of a tuple. Hans Nowak posts a format function that fits the bill. http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=40FF1A61.9050408%40zephyrfalcon.org The release of IronPython 0.6, a Python implementation for .Net and Mono, spawns a broader discussion on the merits of .Net and the Common Language Runtime. http://groups.google.com/groups?threadm=278de0e.0407281353.27b6a457%40postin... http://www.ironpython.com Christopher T. King takes a closer look at Yaroslav Bulatov's attempt to benchmark various approaches to sum many floating point numbers. http://groups.google.com/groups?threadm=Pine.LNX.4.44.0408011847510.21160-10... Premshree Pillai writes an SMS-to-LiveJournal gateway in Python http://www.livejournal.com/users/premshree/33967.html How would you iterate over a list two consecutive items at a time? That's a the heart of jblazi's question, and it turns out that there are two ways to do it. http://groups.google.com/groups?threadm=pan.2004.07.31.12.27.23.547000%40hot... Patrick Rutledge has written an introduction on how to create games using pygame. http://www.linuxjournal.com/article.php?sid=7694 Is Python fully thread-safe? Jeff Epler is poking fun at the questioner, but Francois Pinard (sorry, no cedilla today) points the discussion into a more serious direction. http://groups.google.com/groups?threadm=mailman.775.1090684870.5135.python-l... "Btw, thank you for those footnotes in Thinking in Java that encouraged me to try Python :-)" - Dan Bishop. Bruce Eckel, author of "Thinking in Java", asks for a test for string similarity. He receives various answers and a thank-you. http://groups.google.com/groups?threadm=mailman.958.1091195562.5135.python-l... Dan Sugalski has lost the "Pie-thon" bet to Guido van Rossum that Python would run faster on Parrot, the virtual machine meant to power Perl 6. Images of Guido throwing the pie are finally available. http://www.onlamp.com/pub/wlg/5346 http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/oscon2004/friday/index.html ======================================================================== 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... 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