QOTW: "Python may be one of the simplest and most flexible programming
languages out there, but it is still a programming language. It still has
syntax, datatypes, and the occasional dark corner inhabited by sorcerers
named Tim." Mark Lutz
http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/python/2004/02/05/learn python.html
"I think PyChecker ( http://pychecker.sf.net/ ) should be mentioned in
every beginner tutorial, and should be integrated with every Python IDE.
Before you type anything, type 'import pychecker.checker'." DH
In principle, comp.lang.python.announce announces all the great
Python-related software that's available. Much never appears
there, though. Among the jewels of the last fortnight: Python
wrappers for the GNU Scientific Library and NOAA cartographic
toos, a pure Python DHCP server, an XHTML generator, and far too
much more ...
http://pygsl.sourceforge.net/
http://www.cdc.noaa.gov/~jsw/python/gmt/
http://sourceforge.net/projects/pydhcpd/
http://sourceforge.net/projects/hhtml/
Nokia Seris 60 handsets run Python.
http://www.mobilewhack.com/programmi...reenshots.html
LOTS of magazines now run Python content, more than are feasible
to track. Even Tim Berners-Lee has adopted Python for his assault
on The Semantic Web.
http://www.w3.org/2000/10/swap/doc/cwm
Pyzine Issue 5 is out.
http://pyzine.com/Issue005/index.html
Andrew M. Kuchling is exactly the right person to explain
"What's New in Python 2.4".
http://www.python.org/dev/doc/devel/...hatsnew24.html
Ross Karchner illustrates PyAmazon scripting.
http://python.scripting.com/2004/02/01#a317
Python's the development language of two significant tools for
programming database-backed applications.
http://www.devchannel.org/devtoolsch.../1922256.shtml
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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 (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
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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*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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