QOTW: "The IEEE-754 standard doesn't wholly define output conversions, and
explicitly allows that a conforming implementation may produce any digits
whatsoever at and after the 18th signficant digit, when converting a 754
double to string. In practice, all implementations I know of that exploit
that produce zeroes at and after the 18th digit -- but they could produce 1s
instead, or 9s, or digits from pi, or repetitions of the gross national
product of Finland in 1967." - Tim Peters
"If you can't do a first version in six months with a team of six people it
is a sign that you don't really know what you want." - Jack Diederich
Besides the layout for the new Python web site, work on converting
the content from the current site has begun:
http://groups.google.se/group/comp.l...9bd0c83ff89b0c
There has been interest in Sudoku solvers on comp.lang.python
lately:
http://groups.google.se/group/comp.l...t=0&scoring=d&
Don't expect to use the ConfigParser for non-text data. Use ConfigObj
instead when that's what you need:
http://groups.google.se/group/comp.l...5f75051b1fb57c
How do you use Python without installing it on your computer?
http://groups.google.se/group/comp.l...d65089a7c01e3b
Should a web development framework be included in the standard
library?
http://groups.google.se/group/comp.l...e9bd6d002df4d4
Claudio Grondi tries to grok Python by asking questions that
seem to confuse those who try to answer:
http://groups.google.se/group/comp.l...515a4574dc9292
No, regular expressions aren't supposed to be gargantuan, but
there should really be a proper exception when they are:
http://groups.google.se/group/comp.l...df1dd7202e247e
This is neither the first nor the last week, when someone asks
questions related to a mismatch between binary floats and decimal
numbers:
http://groups.google.se/group/comp.l...07673b9f77738e
How do we generate graphics dynamically with Python CGI scripts?
http://groups.google.se/group/comp.l...179735820c85cb
A PHP programmer is making efforts to figure out Python, in
particular with regards to threads, databases and modularity.
(Welcome Robin!)
http://groups.google.se/group/comp.l...f75a37e9242cce
http://groups.google.se/group/comp.l...55bab118aeec50
Numarray, Numeric, NumPy... There should be one--and preferably
only one--obvious way to do it. So, which is it?
http://groups.google.se/group/comp.l...a308411c39c042
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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.
For far, FAR more Python reading than any one mind should
absorb, much of it quite interesting, several pages index
much of the universe of Pybloggers.
http://lowlife.jp/cgi-bin/moin.cgi/P...grammersWeblog
http://www.planetpython.org/
http://mechanicalcat.net/pyblagg.html
comp.lang.python.announce announces new Python software. Be
sure to scan this newsgroup weekly.
http://groups.google.com/groups?oi=d...ython.announce
Steve Bethard, Tim Lesher, and Tony Meyer continue the marvelous
tradition early borne by Andrew Kuchling, Michael Hudson and Brett
Cannon 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/
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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del.icio.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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