QOTW: "My wild-ass guess is that, same as most other Open Source communities, we average about one asshole per member." - Tim Peters http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/msg/02236cc5ab54fd90?hl=en "[T]he only fundamentally new concept that has been added since Python 1.5.2 is generators. And a lot of the stuff you want generators for can be emulated with sequences and extra buffer layers." - Fredrik Lundh gene tani and Olivier Grisel collect information about memory- and time-profiling: http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/browse_thread/thread/6186ae6... Python builds in a convenience for, "this segment of code isn't finished." http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/browse_thread/thread/3179dcc... You want to constrain the time allowed to a particular Python function to execute. A reasonably standard solution is available. To limit *two* potentially concurrent functions, though ... well, that's not a strength of Python: http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/browse_thread/thread/bd808b8... Contest your Python coding: http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/browse_thread/thread/ac7fdb9... Sorting depends on comparisons. It is NOT possible, in general, to memoize these comparisons, in the sense that the Python run-time library should take on the responsibility for developers. DSU and other situation-specific strategies always remains available, of course: http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/msg/8007c9d7fabe6223 http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/browse_thread/thread/773d64e... Yes, Guido's at Google. He'll work on and with Python. How much more "official" do you need it to be? http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/browse_thread/thread/32dc95b... Peter Hansen and David Wahler lucidly explain how hard it is to keep even a little security. A digital datum in any one useful place is likely to leak all over, even for a problem as seemingly simple as protection of a password used for cron-automated access: http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/browse_thread/thread/b8bdb21... Is it "humane" that Ruby typically abbreviates "get(end)" as "last"? Dave Benjamin and Kent Johnson discuss the matter seriously and usefully (with examples!): http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/browse_thread/thread/d2ada62... ======================================================================== 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/ 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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