QOTW: "[T]he essence of software development is code/task factorization."
Hung Jung Lu
"[u]se the best tool for the job, and don't use any that preclude you from
using others at the same time as well."
Roger Binns
"SciPy 2004 ... was a great success."
http://groups.google.com/groups?th=cf4d033c9ca22c42
Notice, by the way, the new availability of *Python Scripting
for Computational Science*.
http://www.amk.ca/diary/archives/cat_python.html#003329
"In recent months several posters on comp.lang.python have suggested
that Python would benefit from making it possible for people to
comment on the documentation, an approach similar to the PHP docs."
Andrew Kuchling didn't join the speculation on the desirability of
such a hypothetical; rather, In his award-winning manner, he created
it. Notice that discussion now focuses on optimization.
http://groups.google.com/groups?fram...553e0347dd115c
Magnus Lie Hetland launches a Wiki just to "chisel ... out a possible
standard API ... for graphs in Python." Notice that, by the end of
the thread, the Wiki is *not* temporary.
http://groups.google.com/groups?fram...df0776394aa6f0
In a single thread, Alex Martelli both: enlists the tokenize
module to introduce examples of the advantages of the new
iterator protocol; and illustrates ways to leverage tokenize()
to handle tokens unknown to base Python.
http://groups.google.com/groups?fram...914fda3566bbd0
Bryan Olson argues that David Mertz's "weightless threads" are
weak--weaker, at least, than true co-routines.
http://groups.google.com/groups?fram...4b3ec6501d42aa
Is there a problem greenlets solve? Did Churchill and Fermi share
a speechwriter?
http://groups.google.com/groups?fram...6336311fa0f429
http://groups.google.com/groups?fram...02f304c8eafcc3
Alex Martelli makes the case that you, too, can readily learn
enough to be a time wizard.
http://groups.google.com/groups?th=135ee8f8e6a362f5
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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
Python Success Stories--from air-traffic control to on-line
match-making--can inspire you or decision-makers to whom you're
subject with a vision of what the language makes practical.
http://www.pythonology.com/success
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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