QOTW: "[The state pattern] can be very confusing for newbies and peoples
having no experience with *dynamic* languages, and I guess control-freaks
and static-typing-addicts would runaway screaming. But I like it anyway
!-)" - bruno desthuilliers
"[D]ubious Python hacks that should never be used in production code are
fun, which is what c.l.p. is all about!" - Michael Hoffman
After four years, the Roundup Issue Tracker version 1.0 is released.
Congratulations !
http://roundup.sourceforge.net/
The Myghty web and templating framework also reaches version 1.0.
"Myghty is a Python Server Page templating and web framework
designed for large-scale, high availability websites and
applications. Its conceptual design and template syntax is derived
from HTML::Mason, the widely used mod_perl web application platform."
http://www.myghty.org/
The latest ActivePython release adds support for Mac OS X/x86, Windows/x64
and Linux/x86_64.
http://www.activestate.com/Products/ActivePython/
PyWeek, The Python Game Programming Challenge, returns.
http://www.pyweek.org/
How to have both a GUI event loop and a listener socket in
the same program...
http://groups.google.com/group/comp....c10335c0a132a5
As Bruno said, some will probably run away screaming, but
you can actually change the class of an instance.
http://groups.google.com/group/comp....581d34561d266d
Sometimes there are several ways of doing very simple things,
such as picking out an item from a set with only one element.
Some ways are faster than others...
http://groups.google.com/group/comp....0b74bdd22a58d0
Last week people used Python for sudoku. Now it's poker!
http://groups.google.com/group/comp....9bac6ae511c1c7
Is it time for unicode in Python operators and names yet?
http://groups.google.com/group/comp....4cb622ffa9316a
Python continues to be a good "choice for beginners."
http://www.ariel.com.au/a/teaching-programming.html
How do we know if there is any input for us in sys.stdin?
http://groups.google.com/group/comp....d2168cde0fd89a
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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.
For far, FAR more Python reading than any one mind should
absorb, much of it quite interesting, several pages index
much of the universe of Pybloggers.
http://lowlife.jp/cgi-bin/moin.cgi/P...grammersWeblog
http://www.planetpython.org/
http://mechanicalcat.net/pyblagg.html
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
Steve Bethard, Tim Lesher, and Tony Meyer continue the marvelous
tradition early borne by Andrew Kuchling, Michael Hudson and Brett
Cannon 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/
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
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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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