QOTW: "Python's a language you can swear by, not at." - Chris "Every sufficiently advanced LISP application will eventually reimplement Python." - Hodgson's Law Chad Himeda asks for a nested loop limit and Peter Hansen answers with a quick test on the commandline. A discussion on the merits of code approaching this limit entrails. http://groups.google.com/groups?threadm=fd07865f.0407071045.16e20c84%40posti... Karl Pech wants to calculate PI using the Monte Carlo method - and fast. http://groups.google.com/groups?threadm=ccke8p%24c0h%2406%241%40news.t-onlin... Chris recollects how he fell in love with Python. http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=mailman.138.1089318827.5135.python-list... Marco Aschwanden asks for opinions on the use of multiple return statements in a single function. http://groups.google.com/groups?threadm=mailman.158.1089358188.5135.python-l... Bryan Olson searches for the longest matching prefix of a string using regular expressions. Michael Hudson offers an alternate approach. http://groups.google.com/groups?threadm=gN5Hc.12587%24ia1.1667%40newssvr27.n... Contrary to the current documentation, the open() builtin is not retained for compatibility only. It may even grow some extra logic and no longer be confined to ordinary files. http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2004-July/045931.html Guido van Rossum is less concerned about variable names shading builtins than many posters on c.l.py. http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2004-July/045948.html Anthony Baxter announces release of the first alpha version of Python 2.4. You are invited to download and participate in the test. http://groups.google.com/groups?threadm=mailman.157.1089357112.5135.python-l... ======================================================================== 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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