QOTW: "Lucky for me I found python before Java took over my brain." - Huy "Python fits my brain" - c.l.py proverb "So as far as I'm concerned, SOAP is not XML, nor is it useful to even a fraction of the degree to which it is destructive." - Uche Ogbuji Over the weekend Andrea Griffini has implemented a toy Basic interpreter in Python, inspired by a post of Leif K-Brooks. A few other languages are also available. http://groups.google.com/groups?threadm=2oo13eFcj548U1%40uni-berlin.de Jeff Epler and Martin von Loewis help Vincent Delft to overcome the lack of encoding-awareness in the zip file format. http://groups.google.com/groups?threadm=4127a6d7%240%244090%24ba620e4c%40new... As of June 2004, Pythonology has a few new success stories. http://www.pythonology.com/success Python people are nice, says Andy Todd. http://www.halfcooked.com/mt/archives/000833.html Something new from the decorator front: Paul McGuire initates another decorator poll and a new keyword followed by a suite seems to emerge as a viable contender with a small chance to beat the pie syntax. http://groups.google.com/groups?threadm=t07Vc.1179%24v86.188%40fe2.texas.rr.... Thanks to the work of Michael Sparks building on previous efforts by Mark Russell there is already a patch. Anthony Baxter, the outspoken proponent of the pie syntax, helps with some useful hints, too. http://www.python.org/sf/1013835 Robert Brewer volunteers to "sell" the result to GvR. http://www.aminus.org/rbre/python/pydec.html Too old/too young is no excuse for not learning Python, according to a thread started by Lucas Raab, asking for the "Age of Python programmers" with the only word of caution, "Not yet, but our day will come" being uttered by Robey Holderith. http://groups.google.com/groups?th=5f4805189aa2470d ======================================================================== 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 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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