QOTW: "I worry about Python losing its KISS principle. Python 2.2 has been
ported to the Nokia Series 60 platform, which has something like 8-16 MB of
RAM available. I'm sure the footprint growth of Python 2.3 and 2.4 gives
those developers nightmares already when they are thinking of tracking later
versions..." - Guido van Rossum
"Everyone knows that any scripting language shootout that doesn't show
Python as the best language is faulty by design." - Max M
In his answer to John Fabiani, Martin von Loewis informs about the
limitations (sic!) of 64-bit Python. For the rest of us it's good to
know it's there.
http://groups.google.com/groups?thre...ws.prodigy.com
While Steve Holden explains how to craft SQL-Queries properly to take
advantage of the Python Database API's parameter substitution
features, he advances from most likely the oldest to definitely the
oldest Python user. Or is it just sample data?
http://groups.google.com/groups?selm...0holdenweb.com
George Young learns the hard way about a pitfall of implicit
conversion to bool in an if statement.
http://groups.google.com/groups?c2co...f8f0f9595d702a
See Eric DeWall's post for an example where the null object design
pattern (pointed out by Irmen de Jong) can help clean up your code.
http://groups.google.com/groups?thre...r.qualcomm.com
Uwe Schmitt submits a nice recipe dealing with hierarchical data to
the Python Cookbook.
http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/Coo.../Recipe/286150
Blogging addicts among the pythonistas - have you been on planet Python?
http://www.planetpython.org/
Frank Immich triggers a sudden spike of activity in the german python
mailing list. Various algorithms to discover consecutive numbers in a
list are explored, which may also be of interest to an international
crowd.
http://starship.python.net/pipermail...q2/005167.html
Gabor Farkas wants to know how to cope with a dictionary that is getting
too big to hold in memory. Along with the standard answers he receives
a custom solution by Jeff Epler.
http://groups.google.com/groups?thre...t%40python.org
You're not a lawyer, of course, but you spend part of your time
trying to think like one. It follows that the intellectual
property documents Marc-Andre Lemburg and the rest of the PSF
are accumulating might interest you.
http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/moinmo...wareFoundation
Phil Thompson announces the release of SIP Version 4.0, a tool to
generate Python wrappers for C and C++ libraries.
http://groups.google.com/groups?selm...t%40python.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 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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http://groups.google.com/groups?meta....lang.python.*
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