QOTW: "As revealed by PSU Research Paper 'UU788', the real reason is a side effect of the nanovirus encroaching into non-whitespace, as first proposed by 'UU355' and then earlier proven (twice, as it turned out) by 'UU6 9'. The only defence is t*^$Z:%Z* NO CARRIER" - Richie Hindle. He appears to have survived the... unfortunate incident. "What do I have to say to get into the QOTW?" - Dan Python, who finally realized that Dan Perl is not going to cut it as a name. Johannes Eble is looking for software te help replace Matlab with Python. Respondents recommend the combination of SciPy and IPython. http://groups.google.com/groups?threadm=uhu1m0t4euvekl61ilengepdhuettvmutr%4... Irmen de Jong is looking for a way to make an object temporarily read-only. Alex Martelli comes up with a clever, obvious-when-you-have-seen-it approach of changing the class of the live object. http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=1gl6bdp.rudxqrkoby1zN%25aleaxit%40yahoo... Global interpreter lock of CPython and multi-CPU scalability are a recurrent theme in comp.lang.python. The current concern involves the upcoming availability and popularity of multicore CPUs. http://groups.google.com/groups?threadm=6db3f637.0410042045.2171ad5f40postin... PySQLite, the python interface to the SQLite embedded relational database, hits 1.0. http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=mailman.4368.1097005231.5135.python-lis... Carlos Ribeiro provides Erik Johnson a simple explanation of the mechanics behind class and function definitions - a simple matter that confuses many, especially people who think Python has such things as 'declarations'. http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=mailman.4460.1097104255.5135.python-lis... Alex Martelli shows how we should use the plain objects returned by object() as sentinels. http://groups.google.com/groups?threadm=1glatop.p9hsopf3b9m4N%25aleaxit%40ya... Robin Becker needs to determine whether an object is a sequence. http://groups.google.com/groups?threadm=41650CAE.704%40chamonix.reportlab.co... Boo 0.4.3, the Python-like language for .NET/Mono CLR, is out. http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=8PGdnS7wN_uwg_rcRVn-qw%40comcast.com ======================================================================== 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 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. *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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