QOTW: "try...except and try...finally are really two completely different
statements with different purposes." - Carl Banks
"Zope and ZODB do incredibly complex stuff as side effects in what Guido
surely thought of as 'tiny hooks'. He had in mind that hasattr() might
look for a key in a dict or list, and suppress a harmless KeyError or
IndexError, not start World War III and then send an endless sequence of
Terminators back in time to change the outcome <wink>." - Tim Peters
http://www.zopezen.org/Members/slink...6-03.2651/view
The Vancouver Workshop starts at the end of next month; it looks
like a good one. Talks must be submitted by tomorrow.
http://www.vanpyz.org/conference
Fredrik Lundh illustrates an advantage of regular-expression
callbacks in a thread that demonstrates, once again, that any
advantage Perl has in REs is slight
http://groups.google.com/groups?fram...d3ade86905a5fe
Mark Hughes concisely summarizes the essentials of clipboard-think
in an X context
http://groups.google.com/groups?fram...eb40e81e5bc214
Batista Facundo tries to achieve immutability with a class written in
pure Python.
http://groups.google.com/groups?th=b9e8bfb6fc418694
Raoul collects various strategies to connect a textbox and
value-checking code.
http://groups.google.com/groups?th=8330d1da313519f5
Peter Hansen: "Now that the editor and tab-wars are over..."
Ville Vanio: "Do we finally have the official endorsement to burn
tab-users at stake?"
Style does matter to pythoneers. This is why a change in the style
guide cannot go unnoticed for long.
http://groups.google.com/groups?th=f4edd746f4d0314c
http://www.python.org/peps/pep-0008.html
David Stockwell wonders how try...finally and try...except are best
combined.
http://groups.google.com/groups?th=38706301759dd499
If you are teaching programming, Python is both easy to learn and
powerful. NN has made the switch from C++.
http://groups.google.com/groups?th=385262e8f3aa1a92
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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 newsgroup 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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Archive probing tricks of the trade:
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