QOTW: "I'd love it if we could come up with a different term for these
beasts than 'new style classes'." --Barry Warsaw
"Then let me suggest ectomorphic classes, as opposed to the previous
endomorphic classes. Roll-your-own classes can be called mesomorphic
classes. Extension classes can be called paleomorphic classes. Then
there's a precise term for each kind, and bystanders are automically
informed by the very terminology used that their lives are too short to
worry about the distinctions being drawn <wink>." --Tim Peters
http://mail.python.org/pipermail/pyt...ry/042181.html
Plone wins ticket to Comdex
http://osdir.com/Article199.phtml
Travis Oliphant courageously asks for feedback on a controversial
decision for users of large homogeneous arrays
http://groups.google.com/groups?selm...t%40python.org
Gandalf, Tim Peters and others discuss the risks, or otherwise, of
unpickling
http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=bufkot$96vl$1%40netnews.upenn.edu
Peter Otten can't resist demonstrating bad Python style by emulating
the lazy evaluation built into other languages
http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=buhd16$1qd$01$1%40news.t-online.com
What's *really* the correct way to launch a simple external Windows
application?
http://groups.google.com/groups?selm....supernews.com
François Pinard embeds Python in Pyrex in C
http://groups.google.com/groups?selm...t%40python.org
Thomas Heller is persuaded to keep ctypes cross-platform
http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/Mai...-users/1979390
The long-awaited Learning Python, 2nd edition is out (O'Reilly)
http://books.slashdot.org/article.pl...4/01/20/176200
Version 1.19 of Reportlab, the PDF generation library, is out:
http://groups.google.com/groups?selm...at.fsnet.co.uk
Matthias Baas releases Python Computer Graphics Kit v1.1.0
http://groups.google.com/groups?selm...s%40python.org
Zope 2.6.4 rc1 and 2.7.0 rc1 Released (along with standalone ZODB
releases)
http://groups.google.com/groups?selm...s%40python.org http://groups.google.com/groups?selm...s%40python.org
Marc-Andre Lemburg releases eGenix mxODBC Zope Database Adapter 1.0.8
http://groups.google.com/groups?selm...s%40python.org
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Notice especially the master FAQ
http://www.python.org/doc/FAQ.html
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http://www.pythonware.com/daily
Mygale is a news-gathering webcrawler that specializes in (new)
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http://www.awaretek.com/nowak/mygale.html
While cosmetically similar, Mygale and the Daily Python-URL
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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."
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The Python Software Foundation (PSF) has replaced the Python
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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
Cetus collects Python hyperlinks.
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Python FAQTS
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The Cookbook is a collaborative effort to capture useful and
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http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/Cookbook/Python
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For more, see
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The old Python "To-Do List" now lives principally in a
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