Editor's note: "Python-URL!" is minimal. It doesn't support advertisements, we never allow the subscribers' addresses to be used for other purposes, we don't claim infallibility, and we even take a couple weeks off some years. Occasionally, though--not as often as the US enters a shooting war, say, but more frequently than IBM hires a new CEO--we pause for a sufficiently important correction or announcement. This year, we apologize for inexplicably changing Oliver Schoenborn's name a couple of weeks ago to "Philip". Also, has anyone indexed Python bloggers (that is, webloggers of things Pythonic)? QOTW: "... more like generator included." -- Efrat Regev, on the proper characterization of our language of choice VOTW: Steves break ground on VOTWs. Notice the surrounding serious discussions on what exactly makes for an improvement in the language. http://groups-beta.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/msg/1c39adfc9408e225 http://groups-beta.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/msg/1fb3718aee61e4a7 Andrew Kuchling's explanation of PyZeroconf is exemplary: http://www.amk.ca/python/zeroconf All those calendrical/temporal things you need that the standard datetime module doesn't supply? Gustavo Niemeyer supplies (most of) them: https://moin.conectiva.com.br/DateUtil Laugh? Cry? Appeal to the UN? Not only can Python define "(almost) arbitrary infix operators", but you can parametrize their production, with "probably the best Python hack *ever*": http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/Cookbook/Python/Recipe/384122 Python 3000 might be real, and relatively free of trauma: http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2005-January/051363.html Graybeard Steve Holden rambles through the sort of speech that commentators usually take as a sign of breakdown. In this case, though, the delivery has the virtues of: accuracy; and relevance: http://groups-beta.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/msg/9eb125ba50863d57 The state of the art of use of decorations continues to advance: http://groups-beta.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/browse_thread/thread/13... Pythoneers, too, can solve polynomials (although probably not without obscure astronomical, linguistic, artistic, ... references): http://groups-beta.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/browse_thread/thread/4a... ======================================================================== 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 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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