QOTW: "The right solution will end up being unique to Python though. It has
to feel like Python." -- Guido van Rossum
http://aws.typepad.com/aws/2005/01/a...evcon_g_4.html
"Sparring with Alex Martelli is like boxing Mike Tyson, except that one
experiences brain enhancement rather than brain damage :)." -- beliavsky
This is your opportunity to vote on the prospective creation of
de.comp.lang.py thon:
http://groups.google.de/groups?selm=...sede%40dana.de
http://gvv.th-h.de/
eval() often inverts repr(). pickle() makes for more reliable
serialization:
http://groups-beta.google.com/group/...24fe8aa00f7f5/
Kamilche illustrates how scripting (Web-scraping, in this case)
can put eBay (Google, Amazon, ...) under *your* control:
http://groups-beta.google.com/group/...0d7ebb06c49272
Tim Churches pulls off the remarkable feat of appearing to say
true, useful, and not-stultifying things on licensing:
http://groups-beta.google.com/group/...07194c795f505/
How declarative are metaclasses and decorators? Diez B. Roggisch
has been helpful with this and similarly interesting summaries and
examples:
http://groups-beta.google.com/group/...da70b0845b6fe/
Art Siegel also approaches the question, in a more narrative
fashion. Notice in the same thread Steve Holden's persistent
advertising of PyCon 2005, emphasizing the celebrities (martellibot!,
Armin "I Infer That" Rigo, ...) expected to appear, some for the
first time ever in this dimension.
Nick Coghlan explains the trickiness of Duncan Booth and F.
PetitJean. This is a chance to practice generators, zip,
map, and iter, all in about two lines:
http://groups-beta.google.com/group/...ba37b0fb0fa69e
Do you know the standard library well enough to recognize its
parametric statistics?
http://groups-beta.google.com/group/...d1e869fe6e08a/
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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
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_usub...python%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?...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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deli.cio.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=d...python&num=100
http://groups.google.com/groups?meta....lang.python.*
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