QOTW: [Must be seen to be believed] http://groups-beta.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/msg/7613422265cdc010

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News from PyCon2005 emerges almost continuously. See, for example, this blog startpoint: http://pycon.blogspot.com/

Want productivity? Get Python: http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2005-March/052246.html

Pythoneers produce side-splitting doggerel: http://groups-beta.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/browse_thread/thread/d7...

'Suspect that essentially all computing problems have been solved, and all programs already written? The Python Poets put the lie to *that* proposition, and spectacularly: http://groups-beta.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/browse_thread/thread/28...

Florent Guillaume, Fazal Majid, and others significantly advance the state of threading: http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2005-March/051856.html

Getting passwords right is ... a lot more challenging than the many inviting ways to do it wrong: http://groups-beta.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/browse_thread/thread/91...

Understand Python scoping, even in the presence of generators: http://groups-beta.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/browse_thread/thread/46...

======================================================================== 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.announ...

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=brows... 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.

del.icio.us presents an intriguing approach to reference commentary. It already aggregates quite a bit of Python intelligence. http://del.icio.us/tag/python

*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&nu... http://groups.google.com/groups?meta=site%3Dgroups%26group%3Dcomp.lang.pytho...

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