QOTW: "In the context of storage, there are three types of applications ...:
relational databases, files and objects such as photographs, and system
backups that have to be easy to retrieve." Mark Lewis, CTO of EMC
http://techupdate.zdnet.com/techupda...914178,00.html
"And surprisingly enough, I rarely use regular expressions any more. There
are usually simpler and better ways of doing it for most problems."
Max M Rasmussen, on his transition to Python
Any beginner knows that an interpreted language like Python is
slow. It requires expertise like Alex Martelli's to measure
how slow, though ... or, wait a minute; that's not slow! And
beginners *should* know timeit.py.
http://groups.google.com/groups?selm...40news2.tin.it
We often talk about Python's portability. At the same time,
the language is capable at accessing platform-specific results.
Tim Howarth provides a lucid example which lists all machines in
an Active Directory domain.
http://groups.google.com/groups?selm...hy.demon.co.uk
"Slithy is a library for creating animated PowerPoint-style
presentations using Python and OpenGL."
http://isotropic.org/uw/slithy
Dinu Gherman uses PythonPoint in much the same role.
http://python.net/~gherman/Presentations.html
The A-A-P project is a make replacement and extension written in Python.
Part of the project is "Zimbu Awards" given to those who helped improving
the project: fame *and* real money.
http://www.a-a-p.org/zimbu_award.html
Yes, it can do *that*, too: Peter Hansen's latest example of a
Serious Program coded in Python is a "test-driven development framework
for our embedded code."
http://groups.google.com/groups?selm...%40engcorp.com
In a thread nominally focused on multimedia and games, Jonathan P.
quickly enumerates what's really salient in deploying desktop
applications based on either Java or Python: memory use,
installation footprint, ...
http://groups.google.com/groups?selm....uni-berlin.de
Bengt Richter provides a module that "check[s] Python source for
syntax errors ..." and other dangers, as an existence proof that
textual descriptions can be rendered into Python objects.
http://groups.google.com/groups?selm...216.39.172.122
Kyler Laird reports that PyStripchart is capable of "cool"
demonstrations and more, for those with an interest in display
of "time-sampled data in an interactive 'strip chart' form".
http://groups.google.com/groups?selm...wls.lairds.org
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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
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.python.announce announces new Python software. Be
sure to scan this newly-revitalized newsgroup at least weekly.
http://groups.google.com/groups?oi=d...ython.announce
Brett Cannon continues the marvelous tradition established by
Andrew Kuchling and Michael Hudson of 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
The Python Software Foundation has replaced the Python Consortium
as an independent nexus of activity
http://www.python.org/psf/
Cetus does much of the same
http://www.cetus-links.org/oo_python.html
Python FAQTS
http://python.faqts.com/
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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Archive probing tricks of the trade:
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