QOTW: "Stop thinking of three lines as 'extensive coding' and your problem disappears immediately." - Steve Holden "Hey, did you hear about the object-oriented version of COBOL? They call it 'ADD ONE TO COBOL'." - Tim Roberts EuroPython: Registration is open! http://www.europython.org/sections/registration_issues/registration-open EuroPython in the Python411 Podcast Series http://www.europython.org/sections/tracks_and_talks/announcements/europython... Python 2.5 appears to give wrong results on Windows for file creation/modification/last access time - but no, it's right, although the differences are a bit hard to explain: http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/browse_thread/thread/890eef2... http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/browse_thread/thread/2a73854... The right way to handle Unicode filenames, including Zip archives: http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/browse_thread/thread/4d39da0... The concept of "active exception" may be a bit obscure - see a great clarification by Duncan Booth in this thread: http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/browse_thread/thread/74dc514... However widely it's believed that items in a Tkinter listbox can't be differentially colored, rfg007 knows better: http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/browse_thread/thread/a7276ce... itertools.groupby is a great tool. Trying to improve the documentation, contributors arrive at pleasing examples: http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/browse_thread/thread/7ef9301... What people like about Python, pitfalls, desired features, misfeatures, all in a rather serious and objective thread called -of course- "Python rocks!" :) http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/browse_thread/thread/2a771ba... Python and memory handling: why you don't notice the freed memory, why one should not care, and details on the "small-object allocator" http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/browse_thread/thread/5d3a5a3... If you are concerned on how __special__ methods map onto the internal type structures, or just curious about that, these comments may be useful: http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/browse_thread/thread/e86275f... ======================================================================== 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. The Python Papers aims to publish "the efforts of Python enthusiats". http://pythonpapers.org/ Readers have recommended the "Planet" sites: http://planetpython.org http://planet.python.org 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 Python411 indexes "podcasts ... to help people learn Python ..." Updates appear more-than-weekly: http://www.awaretek.com/python/index.html Steve Bethard continues the marvelous tradition early borne by Andrew Kuchling, Michael Hudson, Brett Cannon, Tony Meyer, and Tim Lesher 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 Although unmaintained since 2002, the Cetus collection of Python hyperlinks retains a few gems. 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 Many Python conferences around the world are in preparation. Watch this space for links to them. 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