QOTW: "If you're sick of answering newbie questions, and don't think you can do so politely, for the sake of the community, DON'T! You're not that necessary." - Joal Heagney "Who controls the runtime also controls the language." - Kay Schluehr Jake tells us about the \r control character, which allows one to refresh a terminal line. Many people help him to use it from Python, and Fredrik warns him that it might well not work from an IDE: http://groups-beta.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/browse_thread/thread/50... John Reese asks whether he needs to explicitly close file objects, or whether reference counting will take care of it for him. Martin v. Löwis shows a scenario that demonstrates that ref counting won't always close files when you think it will: http://groups-beta.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/browse_thread/thread/7e... Simon Percivall and Jp Calderone show Michael Chermside how to process subprocess module output a line at a time: http://groups-beta.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/browse_thread/thread/df... WSGI Explorations with Python - Mike Orr investigates WSGI and Paste: http://rex.kicks-ass.net/python/wsgi-explorations.html Len, an "old time Cobol programmer", asks for some advice on storing data: http://groups-beta.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/browse_thread/thread/c2... Dustin is refactoring some unpythonic code that uses a very nasty import mechanism, but now he's having trouble with circular imports: http://groups-beta.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/browse_thread/thread/8e... A Matter Of Questions - Ben Last tells us how he's using Python for data cleansing, amongst other things, while building a Playstation Music Quiz: http://www.livejournal.com/users/benlast/24719.html William Park wants to test how similar two strings are. This is more complicated than it sounds... http://groups-beta.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/browse_thread/thread/4a... Create an ODBC data source in the fly with Python: http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/Cookbook/Python/Recipe/414879 Paul Rubin investigates how the super() function works with multiple inheritance. A number of people clear things up for him. http://groups-beta.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/browse_thread/thread/57... Notable releases: pysqlite 2.0.2 http://pysqlite.org/ PyPy 0.6 (!) http://groups-beta.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/browse_thread/thread/8e... ======================================================================== 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 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/ The Python Business Forum "further[s] the interests of companies that base their business on ... Python." http://www.python-in-business.org 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/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 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. del.icio.us presents an intriguing approach to reference commentary. 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