QOTW: "The site that I worked on spent TWO MILLION U.S. DOLLARS on its web
server hardware. OK, it used Java servlets that are even slower than Python,
but you have to understand that there's a point after which you can no longer
pretend that hardware is free." -- Paul Rubin
"Monte Carlo sampling is no way to understand code." -- Gordon McMillan
Martin v. Loewis clarifies what entities might "compete" with Python
http://www.google.com/groups?selm=c4...s.t-online.com
Peter Otten determines to find the simplest way of automatically
assigning instance attributes from an argument list
http://groups.google.c om/gr************* ************@ne ws.t-online.com
http://groups.google.com/groups?thre...s.t-online.com
Is application-level configuration worth its own "advanced ... parser
and validator"? Is working with*out* tconfpy any more sensible? Give
thanks to Tim Daneliuk
http://www.tundraware.com/Software/tconfpy/
A question from a Delphi user about getters and setters in Python
elicits a good set of URLs on properties
http://groups.google.com/groups?&thr...wsflash.abo.fi
The long-awaited SciPy 0.3 arrives
http://groups.google.com/gr*********...***@python.org
Alan Kennedy bravely works through a concrete example of management
of Word-as-XML
http://groups.google.com/groups?fram...888d67a6991cfd
Python 2.4 is on its way
http://python.org/peps/pep-0320.html
Francois Pinard believes he improves on Guido's main() model
http://groups.google.com/groups?fram...4d0e366becbbca
Michael Hudson Thinks Like a Pythonista about stacklessness,
bytecodehacks, and more
http://starship.python.net/crew/mwh/hacks/
Ero Carrera's pydot interface to the graphviz graph visualization
library (the "nodes and edges" kind of graph) is addictive
http://dkbza.org/pydot.html
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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 newsgroup 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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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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