QOTW: "It might be nice if it was widely understood (in IT) that Python was
a language any competent programmer could pick up in an afternoon, such that
Java, C, and Perl shops would not be concerned about the need for their staff
to learn a new language." -- Eric Pederson
"What's kind of surprising is that it has turned out to be easier to rewire
the entire world for high-bandwidth Internet than it is to make a good
replication architecture so you can work disconnected!" -- Joel
http://www.salon.com/tech/feature/20...ky/index4.html
It's the Early Bird deadline for PyCon 2005!
http://groups-beta.google.com/group/...0eef8d2f4b41c6
A wide-ranging thread on "security" yields, among other high
points, a recommendation to read *Security Engineering* and
examples of real security issues Python has:
http://groups-beta.google.com/group/...b5a6a91590230/
Can Python operate on a Windows "desktop"? Sure, in a variety of
ways. Thanks to Dennis Benzinger, Jimmy Retzlaff, Vincent Wehren,
and others for their catalogue:
http://groups-beta.google.com/group/...cc8e9cad01288/
The martellibot illustrates why Python's introspection--and
__subclasses__, in particular--make correct "sandboxing" so
challenging for us:
http://groups-beta.google.com/group/...4d7e2c397c2ca/
After a rest of a couple months, it's time again to urge
consideration of IPython as your working shell:
http://groups-beta.google.com/group/...ed261a83318a1e
4XSLT is thread-safe, but individual processor instances are not.
4Suite exploits processor-per-thread:
http://groups-beta.google.com/group/...18d6ead64ca003
Thread inheritance with win32com requires Co*nitialize() management:
http://groups-beta.google.com/group/...3487f970825fc8
Gerald and the timbot speak sense on the platform-specificity that
is memory management.
http://groups-beta.google.com/group/...ef18c56f085eeb
Do NOT let your inheritance schemes complexify. One palliative
tactic is to remember (lazy) "containerization" as an alternative
to subclassing. And learn about decorators. And descriptors, for
that matter:
http://groups-beta.google.com/group/...e4e3bb3c55b28/
Do people still FTP? Well, Python people *can* ...:
http://groups-beta.google.com/group/...b847a725bd8d9f
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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
Kurt B. Kaiser publishes a weekly report on faults and patches.
http://www.google.com/groups?as_usub...python%20patch
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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of Python use, and offer Web presentation of your work.
deli.cio.us presents an intriguing approach to reference commentary.
It already aggregates quite a bit of Python intelligence.
http://del.icio.us/tag/python
*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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