QOTW: "...I want to reserve .var for the "with" statement (a la VB)."
--Guido van Rossum
"...at some point in the future Python *will* grow (optional) type
declarations for all sorts of things (arguments, local variables,
instanc e variables)."
--Guido van Rossum
The developer list responds to a request for Master Thesis ideas with a
multitude of python wish lists.
http://mail.python.org/pipermail/pyt...ead.html#39763
Marc-Andre Lemburg offers what must be the definitive answer on
accessing a MS Access database from linux, and suggests switching to
MS Desktop Engine.
http://groups.google.com/groups?thre...ist@python.org
Jerome Alet releases PyPlet adding speech to IRC.
http://groups.google.com/groups?selm...relogiciel.com
Trent Mick and Martin v. L=F6wis provide hints to Mauro Cicognini and
Bernhard Mulder on getting python running on Win64 systems.
http://groups.google.com/groups?thre...terbusiness.it
http://groups.google.com/groups?threadm=3DNdSob.885$mp1.607@newssvr29.news. pro digy.com
Ian McConnell gets advice on approaches to distributed processing of
images.
http://groups.google.com/groups?thre...it.demon.co.uk
Boost python is alive and well on Mac OS X 10.3 (Panther)
http://mail.python.org/pipermail/c++...read.html#6054
Just van Rossum tells that there's an iChat channel called "MacPython"
now. Hit cmd-G in iChat and type the channel name.
http://mail.python.org/pipermail/pyt...read.html#9183
Facundo Batista wants a monetary data type (Yea!) and after being
directed to decimal.py, he solicits comments on a proposed PEP.
http://groups.google.com/groups?thre...ist@python.org
Twisted 1.1.0: an event-driven networking framework for server and client
applications.
http://groups.google.com/groups?selm...ist@python.org
Python for .NET: a near-seamless integration of Python with the .NET
common language runtime, takes a step forward with the release of
version 1.0 beta1
http://www.zope.org/Members/Brian/PythonNet/
ReSTedit v0.3: a GUI tool for editing and interactively exploring texts
in the ReStructuredText format
http://python.net/~gherman/ReSTedit.html
Robin Dunn reveals that there is a wxWindows Software Foundation being
formed with Mitch Kapor as chairman.
http://www.wxwindows.org/sf/index.htm
Gerson Kurz releases pyfromc, an example of using an embedded python
interpreter in c++.
http://p-nand-q.com/python/pyfromc.html
PEP 289 is accepted, and will introduce generator expressions as a high
performance, memory efficient generalization of list comprehensions and
generators.
http://python.org/peps/pep-0289.html
Ian Bicking releases SQLObject 0.5, an Object-Relational Mapper (ORM),
wrapping your database tables in easy-to-use Python classes.
http://sqlobject.org/
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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 newly-revitalized newsgroup at least weekly.
http://groups.google.com/groups?oi=d...ython.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
The Python Software Foundation has replaced the Python Consortium
as an independent nexus of activity
http://www.python.org/psf/
Cetus does much of the same
http://www.cetus-links.org/oo_python.html
Python FAQTS
http://python.faqts.com/
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?...ShowStatus=all
The old Python "To-Do List" now lives principally in a
SourceForge reincarnation.
http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?atid...70&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=d...python&num=100 http://groups.google.com/groups?meta....lang.python.*
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