QOTW "Implementations are always preferred over rhetoric." - Robert Brewer "The programmers you'll be able to hire to work on a Java project won't be as smart as the ones you could get to work on a project written in Python." - Paul Graham http://www.paulgraham.com/gh.html Colin J. Williams shows Mizrandir how to subclass numarray's arrays. http://groups.google.com/groups?threadm=df3955c3.0408140908.1b9bfb63%40posti... Hoang Do receives various suggestions how to drop into the interpreter from a running script. http://groups.google.com/groups?threadm=mailman.1679.1092569474.5135.python-... Kyle Root asks for help arranging a dependency tree of Python modules and receives both theoretical background information on the problem and code implementing a "topological sort". http://groups.google.com/groups?threadm=6ccff37a.0408111831.6eb25a4e%40posti... Timothy Fitz starts a discussion of the differences between Python's generators (an overwhelming success) and coroutines. http://groups.google.com/groups?threadm=972ec5bd.0408141032.385fe115%40posti... Fazer learns that he has competition in the area of scripts that retrieve weather forecasts from the web. http://groups.google.com/groups?threadm=6491b0ab.0408121917.5103b770%40posti... Coming from a C++ background, Olivier Parisy feels uneasy with the use of exceptions to control program flow in non-exceptional situations. Peter Hansen and several others tell him not to worry. http://groups.google.com/groups?threadm=411775aa%240%2417867%24626a14ce%40ne... Roman Suzi has a clear vision of Python 3.0's design process in 2015. http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=mailman.1672.1092553249.5135.python-lis... We resist all urges to say more about decorators or white space. ======================================================================== 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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