QOTW: "Python's best feature is comp.lang.python." -- Joerg Schuster "I learn something valuable from comp.lang.python every week, and most of it has nothing to do with Python." -- Richie Hindle Google writes successful (if suboptimal) applications. Google relies on Python: http://code.google.com http://groups-beta.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/browse_thread/thread/a9... The Enterprise talks about fancy proprietary stuff, but uses Python: http://www.infoworld.com/article/04/09/24/39FErrdev_1.html?s=feature PSF is active even to the point that money comes and goes: http://www.python.org/psf/grants/ http://pythonology.blogspot.com/2005/03/case-for-python-software-foundation.... 'Like Tkinter, except for its appearance? Try Tile: http://mfranklin.is-a-geek.org/docs/Tile/index.html While GUI toolkit selection involves significant subjective factors, the PyQt fans at least coherently describe their preference: http://groups-beta.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/browse_thread/thread/97... "Wing 2.0.2 ... adds easier-to-use Zope/Plone integration, extension of the IDE ..., CVS integration, ..., speed optimiations, ..." http://wingware.com/pub/wingide/press/2.0.2-release.html Steven Bethard provides an example of optparse use: http://groups-beta.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/browse_thread/thread/c7... ======================================================================== 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 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 Kurt B. 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