QOTW: "Check out BeautifulSoup -- you will never write HTMLParser-based screen scrapers again. :)" - Jonathan Ellis "You clearly need something instead of XML." - Paul McGuire http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/msg/09e943c8dbf1e8c5? Johann C. Rocholl donates a PNG manager in pure Python: http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/browse_thread/thread/97c035f... Andrew Clover provides new Python icons: http://doxdesk.com/img/software/py/icons2.png http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2006-March/063235.html http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2006-April/063517.html Might it be practical to use py2exe to make single-file executables of Tkinter applications? Perhaps when Tkinter reaches 8.5 of Tk: http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/browse_thread/thread/b6a6133... Even more primitive compilation abilities have advanced lately. Paul Moore details construction of Python with the fee-free Microsoft compiler, while Anthony Baxter compiles Python with C++ (!): http://wiki.python.org/moin/Building_Python_with_the_free_MS_C_Toolkit?highl... http://svn.python.org/projects/python/trunk/PCbuild/readme.txt http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2006-April/063719.html http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2006-April/063632.html Danny Yee accurately describes David Mertz' Python book: http://dannyreviews.com/h/Text_Python.html Anthony Baxter has created a "Firefox searchbar" which finds Python bugs by their SourceForge IDs. There are also two Firefox sidebar options: http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2006-April/063285.html http://www.python.org/~anthony/searchbar/ http://starship.python.net/~skippy/mozilla/ http://projects.edgewall.com/python-sidebar/ A few low-level technical touches have the potential to affect wider audiences: a patch from Georg Brandl effects a ratified improvement to traceback, but one which breaks several exising doctests: http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2006-April/063662.html Also, Zachary Pincus and others worked out a dlopen()-based upgrade to dynamic loading under Mac OS X (or Darwin more broadly): http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2006-April/063336.html ======================================================================== 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 Python411 indexes "podcasts ... to help people learn Python ..." Updates appear more-than-weekly: http://www.awaretek.com/python/index.html 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 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 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://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0042/ 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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