QOTW: "... open recursion with abstraction is supported in OOP but it requires elaborate and rather tedious boilerplate in FP ..." - Martin Odersky http://www.nabble.com/Re%3A--scala--usefulness-of-OOP-p23273389.html How to write a method that may act both as an instance method and as a class method: http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/browse_thread/thread/41e3606... How to check the Python version? http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/browse_thread/thread/105dd46... Exceptions alter the normal lifetime of some objects: http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/browse_thread/thread/7f90567... Are exit() and sys.exit() the same thing? http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/browse_thread/thread/72b318b... "Exotic" logics http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/browse_thread/thread/75d688e... A compilation of good books in Computer Science/Software Engineering: http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/browse_thread/thread/952facd... itertools.intersect is missing? http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/browse_thread/thread/4772d9f... From Perl to Python: Lexical (private) scope: http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/browse_thread/thread/2b2536c... Multiple sequence subscripts: http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/browse_thread/thread/61c1d89... None, vacuous truth, denotational semantics, and other philosophical aspects of emptyness: http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/browse_thread/thread/3c5397f... Walking a directory containing many many files: http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/browse_thread/thread/ff3905b... How to get the total size of a local hard disk in a cross-platform way :) http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/msg/c6c09fa6b3b62f84 ======================================================================== 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 Just beginning with Python? This page is a great place to start: http://wiki.python.org/moin/BeginnersGuide/Programmers The Python Papers aims to publish "the efforts of Python enthusiasts": http://pythonpapers.org/ The Python Magazine is a technical monthly devoted to Python: http://pythonmagazine.com Readers have recommended the "Planet" sites: http://planetpython.org http://planet.python.org comp.lang.python.announce announces new Python software. Be sure to scan this newsgroup weekly. http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.python.announce/topics Python411 indexes "podcasts ... to help people learn Python ..." 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