QOTW: "Name me any product (except maybe TeX) that was mature at version
1.0. I remember using Visual Basic at v1.0 and it definitely wasn't
mature..."
-- Alan Gauld on the maturity of IDLE
"Most Python users don't know C, and will never see the C implementation."
-- Tim Peters
Rob Hughes wishes all a Happy New Year in a multilingual piece of code.
http://groups.google.com/gr*********...ing.google.com
Art Haas announces the eleventh development release of PythonCAD, a
fully scriptable drafting program written in python.
http://groups.google.com/gr*********...***@python.org
Daniel Pryde gets some ideas on optimizing a best match searching
algorithm.
http://groups.google.com/groups?thre...2.texas.rr.com
Barry A. Warsaw releases Mailman 2.1.4, a bug fix release that also
contains support for four new languages: Catalan, Croatian, Romanian,
and Slovenian.
http://groups.google.com/gr*********...***@python.org
Oh Kyu Yoon asks how to implement plots from scipy, chaco, etc into
wxPython widget.
http://groups.google.com/gr*************************@news.Stanford.EDU
Bjorn Stabell announces the creation of Python and Zope/Plone Chinese
Forums.
http://groups.google.com/gr*********...***@python.org
hokieghal99 asks Is Python Mac Centric?
http://groups.google.com/gr*************************@solaris.cc.vt.edu
Greg Lindstrom gets help monitoring an MS Exchange mailbox.
http://groups.google.com/groups?thre...t%40python.org
Tim Churches and Adam Twardoch point out articles that may require a
revision in the Guinness Book of World Records.
-- http://news.independent.co.uk/world/...p?story=476931
-- http://www.wftv.com/news/2732086/detail.html
Peter Astrand solicits comments on PEP 324, a proposal to introduce a
new POSIX process module popen5.
http://groups.google.com/gr*********...***@python.org
http://groups.google.com/groups?thre...t%40python.org
Mike gets help with a problem building on BeOS.
http://groups.google.com/groups?threadm=NLhJb.31440$I07.78784@attbi_s53
Black asks about implementing undo and redo using tkinter.
http://groups.google.com/groups?thre...t%40python.org
Roger Jack is looking for the best tool for templating source code files
and then generating python code.
http://groups.google.com/gr*********...**@comcast.com
Randall Smith needs a way to convert a datetime string of unknown format
to a python datetime object.
http://groups.google.com/gr**********************************@fe1.texas.rr. com
Robert Brewer updates his recur.py, then later provides an example of
using recur.interval with threading.Timer.
http://groups.google.com/gr*********...***@python.org
Hye-Shik Chang announces Anonfunc 1.0, a C extension module that creates
anonymous functions based on operator overloading.
http://groups.google.com/gr*********...***@python.org
Francois releases Allout-Vim 040103, a tool that eases the handling of
Allout files from within a Python-enabled Vim.
http://groups.google.com/gr*********...***@python.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
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.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 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
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/
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
The online Python Journal is posted at pythonjournal.cognizor.com.
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welcome submission of material that helps people's understanding
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Archive probing tricks of the trade:
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http://groups.google.com/groups?meta....lang.python.*
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