QOTW: "Other than the parts about 'SADISTS and PERVERTS', what portion was on topic?" - Peter Hansen, commenting a spam posting http://groups.google.com/groups?frame=left&th=50285732810cb768

"Python makes me very lazy. Writing a report in LaTeX today, it was actually easier for me to make up a syntax for tagging math symbols (put into comments in the LaTeX source), and extract those and build a List Of Symbols with a python preprocessor before texification, rather than find (and figure out how to use) the correct LaTeX package for that." - Caleb Hattingh http://groups.google.com/groups?frame=left&th=175f4d840fbb6df2

The Boo thread inspires Doug Holton to muse about the future possibilites of the project, while 'Neuruss' relays news about the status of the highly anticipated Starkiller project. http://groups.google.com/groups?threadm=V8SdnRfq9bLtQvfcRVn-vg%40comcast.com http://groups.google.com/groups?threadm=278de0e.0410111836.3a5314e0%40postin...

Daniel Bickett learns how to use the Windows XP balloon tips from Python. Once again, ctypes is just the ticket. http://groups.google.com/groups?threadm=mailman.4712.1097513406.5135.python-... http://starship.python.net/crew/theller/ctypes/

Blow your technical mind *and* stamp your passport: see Lithuania in autumn, on the occasion of the next PyPy sprint. http://groups.google.com/groups?th=4ce1fbd505bad21f

Mike Mussman needs to pass a live socket to another process. Apart from the well-known posix fork()-based solution, we learn that there is actually a relatively clean way to do it in Windows as well. http://groups.google.com/groups?threadm=5d00592f.0410110923.2bb2b1ea%40posti...

Irmen de Jong announces a new release of the Snakelets web programming framework, and gets in an interesting discussion about implementing the new, official WSGI API for it and the benefits it would provide. http://groups.google.com/groups?threadm=416ae4b9%240%2478749%24e4fe514c%40ne... http://groups.google.com/groups?threadm=mailman.4769.1097609657.5135.python-...

Denis Wendum learns that the reverse version of the comparison operator __lt__ is __gt__, not __rlt__, but the discussion quickly turns towards the differences in attribute access between classic and new style classes. http://groups.google.com/groups?threadm=416BD8E7.9885FEBD%40pasdepourriels.e...

Nick needs to know how to change the desktop background in Windows http://groups.google.com/groups?threadm=416c8404%241_3%40alt.athenanews.com

Mabororshi wonders about rewriting the Linux kernel in python. Posters question the virtues of such an endeavour, especially that of a pure python approach, but writing an OS kernel in Python not only doesn't seem so far-fetched - it's been done, as can be seen from the thread. http://groups.google.com/groups?threadm=10mrba51r9dql4f%40corp.supernews.com

IPython, besides changing the license to BSD, will be going through a major cleanup in the immediate future. Fernando Perez, the author of the software, wouldn't mind code contributions. http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=mailman.4814.1097652544.5135.python-lis...

John finds out that at this time, CORBA is probably the optimal way to get COM-like functionality for Python in Linux. http://groups.google.com/groups?threadm=ba129ce7.0410111812.52f88cac%40posti...

Python 2.4, beta 1 is out. Especially notable with this release is the inclusion of the new "subprocess" module. http://www.python.org/2.4/ http://www.python.org/peps/pep-0324.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.announ...

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

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=brows... http://python.sourceforge.net/peps/pep-0042.html

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