QOTW: "They say that when you have a hammer, everything looks like a nail.
When using Python, most everything /is/ a nail." -- Josiah Carlson
"This is the main reason I stick to Tkinter. I've never seen any widget
just half as powerful as tk's canvas in any other GUI toolkit." -- Eric Brunel
Peter Otten delightfully illustrates the Pythonic tendency
to produce working code that yields real measurements.
http://groups.google.com/groups?fram...ac7f9bd283710c
Paul Prescod exemplifies why Pyrex is ascending the ranks of
technologies for getting Python and C to play together nicely.
http://groups.google.com/groups?fram...252f24885fe186
The Docutils sprint, just over three weeks away, will be
one of the most memorable events of the year for Pythonia.
http://groups.google.com/groups?th=645ec14597a6df18
The Stackless sprint's only two weeks away.
http://groups.google.com/groups?fram...809a2bd1674872
Christian Tismer makes new Win32 Python 2.3 Stackless 3.0
binaries available on the Stackless web site.
http://groups.google.com/groups?selm...t%40python.org
"Freshlogic announces IIS2Zope, which serves Zope and Plone
behind IIS using fast ISAPI action. Those of us who want,
or must, run Microsoft IIS have not until now had an elegant
or efficient solution for serving Zope."
http://mail.zope.org/pipermail/zope-...ry/001371.html
Py magazine continues to prowl for new articles and authors.
http://mail.python.org/pipermail/pyt...ry/002902.html
A remote debugger for Python 2.3.3 can be found at
http://ziaran.freehosting.net/
"I started learning Python 3 weeks ago, and was trying to
implement an academic exercise for that purpose, but alas
I had a bug in my implementation ... I decided to modify
pdb for my needs."
http://groups.google.com/groups?selm...s.bezeqint.net
Thanks to Laura Creighton for this treat from the archives:
"How to shoot yourself in the foot with Python":
http://groups.google.com/groups?selm...e.mediaone.net
Does the eruption of interest in Python-based "parsers"
reflect academic adoption of the language for classroom
use? In any case, here's the most helpful of several
recent threads on the theme.
http://groups.google.com/groups?fram...bbbf0a84efcd08
Leo's enthusiasts are *very* enthuisastic.
http://groups.google.com/groups?fram...0dc9b0ca19d10f
Yes, yes, but can Python be trusted in SERIOUS programs?
Well, BEA takes in almost a billion dollars annually of
Very Serious money, and *they* seem comfortable relying
on Python.
http://dev2dev.bea.com/codelibrary/code/wlst.jsp
Keep an eye on the Daily Python URL (see below), whose
activity has recently spiked.
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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.pytho n.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 (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
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?...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
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