Editor's note: "Python-URL!" is minimal. It doesn't support advertisements,
we never allow the subscribers' addresses to be used for other purposes, we
don't claim infallibility, and we even take a couple weeks off some years.
Occasionally, though--not as often as the US enters a shooting war, say,
but more frequently than IBM hires a new CEO--we pause for a sufficiently
important correction or announcement. This year, we apologize for
inexplicably changing Oliver Schoenborn's name a couple of weeks ago to
"Philip". Also, has anyone indexed Python bloggers (that is, webloggers
of things Pythonic)?
QOTW: "... more like generator included." -- Efrat Regev, on the proper
characterizatio n of our language of choice
VOTW: Steves break ground on VOTWs. Notice the surrounding serious
discussions on what exactly makes for an improvement in the language.
http://groups-beta.google.com/group/...39adfc9408e225
http://groups-beta.google.com/group/...b3718aee61e4a7
Andrew Kuchling's explanation of PyZeroconf is exemplary:
http://www.amk.ca/python/zeroconf
All those calendrical/temporal things you need that the standard
datetime module doesn't supply? Gustavo Niemeyer supplies (most
of) them:
https://moin.conectiva.com.br/DateUtil
Laugh? Cry? Appeal to the UN? Not only can Python define "(almost)
arbitrary infix operators", but you can parametrize their production,
with "probably the best Python hack *ever*":
http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/Coo.../Recipe/384122
Python 3000 might be real, and relatively free of trauma:
http://mail.python.org/pipermail/pyt...ry/051363.html
Graybeard Steve Holden rambles through the sort of speech that
commentators usually take as a sign of breakdown. In this
case, though, the delivery has the virtues of: accuracy; and
relevance:
http://groups-beta.google.com/group/...b125ba50863d57
The state of the art of use of decorations continues to advance:
http://groups-beta.google.com/group/...cf2869cc6907d/
Pythoneers, too, can solve polynomials (although probably not without
obscure astronomical, linguistic, artistic, ... references):
http://groups-beta.google.com/group/...db288862f890f/
=============== =============== =============== =============== ============
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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del.icio.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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