QOTW: "The advantage of using slices to extract a single element is that it
avoids IndexErrors for empty lists." Raymond Hettinger
http://groups.google.com/groups?th=44bd04fe85d02c19
"Usually when you feel that you need to generate instances with certain names
you are on the wrong track in translating the problem you need to solve into
a program. " Istvan Albert
http://groups.google.com/groups?fram...e53556b4307fb5
Michael Sparks, David Mertz, Patrick Maupin, Bengt Richter, and
others deepen discussion, mentioned last week, of greenlets,
co-routines, and related matters. Particularly note explanations
of confusing labels.
http://groups.google.com/groups?fram...4b3ec6501d42aa
Bengt Richter and Lonnie Princehouse provide substantial
examples of Python-based (lexical) parsing.
http://groups.google.com/groups?fram...95e46367a16d38
'Need to track every object in the solar system? Erik Max Francis'
Python coding makes it "simple but useful".
http://groups.google.com/groups?th=744df8e93a7a5e5e
Opportunity: if you'll be at this year's SANE in Amsterdam,
help proselytize at the Python Software Foundation stand.
http://groups.google.com/groups?th=c916b2fefd4e878d
Wayne Pierce bases nascent Security Advisor's security auditing on
filesystem and service scans. Python makes it all comprehensible.
http://groups.google.com/groups?th=4387aeb99f5c49d2
Alex Martelli provides a model for "self-updating" Python-coded
software.
http://groups.google.com/groups?selm...it%40yahoo.com
Of course, for Alex, "somedict.get(x , x) [is] a *frequent* Python idiom".
http://groups.google.com/groups?fram...c7dc03a05fa8d1
Yet another distribution? Ubuntu Linux is an ambitious and
Python-oriented one.
http://www.ubuntulinux.org/
=============== =============== =============== =============== ============
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
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
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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