QOTW: "Python makes data-driven programming easy :-)" -- Kent "Python rewards abstraction." -- Alex Martelli As unicode becomes more and more prevalent, the issue of regular expressions matching unicode character sets occurs more often. A current thread has advice: http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/msg/a4b7d3e24a514afd Todd Steury learns about large float representations in python - and that applying some algebra sometimes yields better results than the naive approach: http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/msg/7f5afb4976277ddc pyparsing, the de-facto-standard for parser generation in python, is available at version 1.3.3: http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.python.announce/msg/ff39b02ac712ac7... A new PyRex version addressing bugs ships: http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.python.announce/msg/b30bd0575b6bd08... Metaclasses are so complicated as to make some of their artifacts appear buggy - but luckily they aren't ... http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/msg/a1190851125ce7b5 .NET 3.0 features provoke a discussion on python's nested-tuple function arguments: http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/msg/ee80ba95b76d76b Stackless receives popular publicity for its gaming ability: http://developers.slashdot.org/developers/05/09/17/182207.shtml?tid=156&tid=10 Note how dramatically memory-management perspectives can differ: http://developers.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=162565&cid=13587741 Sudoku puzzles are fun to solve -- both "in real", and by writing software solvers. Python-based solvers on different levels of complexity can be seen here: http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/msg/f7cb534119b877b9 Accessing COM-components from python is usually done with win32com -- but in certain corner cases, comtypes serves you better (or at all): http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/msg/e4075543c2d30200 Creating histograms is a common problem -- another problem is which one is the preferred way to do so: http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/browse_frm/thread/60d405c5282ad36a/faa050cc5d76f6f0?q=dictionary&rnum=2#faa050cc5d76f6f0 ======================================================================== 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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