QOTW: "The bad news is that I seem to be an anti-channeler, so my interest
is perhaps not a *good* sign" - Jim Jewett
"I'm sorry this letter is so long. I didn't have time to write a shorter
one." - Blaise Pascal (1657)
The Python 2.5 release date is now September 19th.
http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0356/
http://groups.google.com/group/comp....84d0465a1f5fc/
IronPython runs on Mono too. Here is How.
http://groups.google.com/group/comp....aca428247ad7e/
Call For Proposals: PyCon 2007
http://mail.python.org/pipermail/pyt...st/005201.html
Call For Tutorials: PyCon 2007
http://mail.python.org/pipermail/pyt...st/005202.html
The best way to find out if something is a number is to use it like one and
see what happens.
http://groups.google.com/group/comp....27c4160b8ab9c/
This week's flame war was brought to you by threading, processes and the
letters G-I-L
http://groups.google.com/group/comp....f279ccf46f87b/
Subclassing the int class does not make ints mutable.
http://groups.google.com/group/comp....dbd0545df9dad/
Why was PEP 359 ("make" syntax) rejected when it would make line-for-line
translations of XML into python so much easier? Asked and answered.
http://groups.google.com/group/comp....58e645d80c7c2/
Releases of Note
IronPython 1.0 - Python implementation for .Net
http://groups.google.com/group/comp....059f37075a97f/
http://blogs.msdn.com/hugunin/archiv...05/741605.aspx
markup.py 1.5 - A lightweight HTML/XML generator
http://groups.google.com/group/comp....9614dea04334f/
matplotlib 0.87.5 Quality 2D plots in python
http://cheeseshop.python.org/pypi/matplotlib
rawdog 2.10 - RSS Aggregator
http://cheeseshop.python.org/pypi/rawdog/2.10
Upcoming Community Events
Plone Conference 2006, October 25-27 (Seattle, Washington)
http://plone.org/events/conferences/seattle-2006
Open Source Developers Conference December 5-8 (Melbourne, Australia)
http://www.osdc.com.au/
PyCon 2007, February 23-25 (Dallas, TX)
http://us.pycon.org/TX2007/HomePage
RuPy 2007, April 7-8 (Poznan, Poland)
http://rupy.wmid.amu.edu.pl/
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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
Python411 indexes "podcasts ... to help people learn Python ..."
Updates appear more-than-weekly:
http://www.awaretek.com/python/index.html
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/python/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
Although unmaintained since 2002, the Cetus collection of Python
hyperlinks retains a few gems.
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://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0042/
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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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