QOTW: "So I better start practice my throwing, and Dan [Sugalski] better start practice his ducking. ;-)" -- Guido van Rossum using his time-machine for a preview on the Pie-thon at Oscon 2004. "Anytime you need to do something on corresponding items in two lists, you should think of zip(), as this binds the matching elements together." -- Marc Boeren Michele Simionato shows a concise way to implement a revolving counter. http://groups.google.com/groups?threadm=4edc17eb.0407180632.14385359%40posti... In his answer to Chris Lyon, Daniel Dittmar posts a mini-tutorial on list comprehensions and iterators. http://groups.google.com/groups?threadm=cd0pse%24q2g%241%40news1.wdf.sap-ag.... Mike C. Fletcher shares his experiences in building Python extensions with the free (of charge) Microsoft Visual C++ Toolkit compiler. http://groups.google.com/groups?threadm=mailman.528.1090097933.5135.python-l... http://members.rogers.com/mcfletch/programming/mstoolkit/ Python newbie Matt Feinstein misses fixed-size integers in the core. While answers point out that this will not be problem in practice, Dan Bishop has a pure-python implementation to ease the (phantom?) pain. http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=ad052e5c.0407161348.42abb996%40posting.... Jacek Generowicz explains Python's scoping rules, and yes, he has a not so hidden agenda. http://groups.google.com/groups?threadm=tyfwu15v85j.fsf%40pcepsft001.cern.ch David Pokorny wants to run a function a fixed number of bytecodes at a time. It turns out that a similar problem has already been discussed a year ago - with impressive code posted by Duncan Booth. http://groups.google.com/groups?threadm=40FA9D2A.3020905%40hotmail.com Python Windows guru Mark Hammond needs beta-testers with IIS and Apache experience for a new ISAPI module. http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=cdf3mb%2418b0%241%40arachne.labyrinth.n... Heiko Wundram engages in a discussion about the algorithm used in his little Minesweeper program. http://groups.google.com/groups?threadm=mailman.326.1089751896.5135.python-l... What is Pie-thon? 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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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