QOTW: "If you really want to learn hard-core Python, probably your best bet
is:
* read everything Tim Peters has ever written in comp.lang.python
(this will take a few months), start with "import this"
* read everything the PyPy guys have ever written (particularly
Christian and Armin)
* read and try to beat the more exotic recipes in the Python cookbook
* read the papers from the various PyCons on metaclasses and the
like, build a couple of dozen metaclasses and descriptors." - Mike C.
Fletcher
"Why would you want to become a programmer? Programmers smell bad, they have
no social life, they get treated like crap by everyone. They can get paid
pretty well but then they spend all the money on useless electronic junk so
they still live like bums. There is only one reason to be a programmer,
which is that the drive to program burns in you like a fire. But in that
case don't ask how to become a programmer, because you are already one, so
welcome to the ranks ;-)." - Paul Rubin
Moving from .net to Python: How to implement Events
and Delegates (Observer pattern)
http://groups.google.com/group/comp....08e6362996834/
How to efficiently access the first, second, etc. lines of a text file
http://groups.google.com/group/comp....0e92738e0a23b/
Borrowing from the D language: 123 456 789 == 123456789, and
other suggestions.
http://groups.google.com/group/comp....c57f9190b93bc/
Ways to write an "is_iterable" function, and why there can't
be an universal version:
http://groups.google.com/group/comp....eea080073729f/
Using ClientForm and mechanize to automate web form submissions
http://groups.google.com/group/comp....4e5a719692775/
Started as: Where do they teach Python officially?,
later discussing what's good for a programmer to know:
http://groups.google.com/group/comp....d2b5042ab2453/
math.pow(3,50)!=3**50 -or- Don't use floating point exponentiation
when you actually want an integer operation
http://groups.google.com/group/comp....55e82b23e1bea/
Closures/Blocks in Python: what is good Ruby code
style is not necesarily good for Python.
http://groups.google.com/group/comp....ee98e03731ecb/
How get "next month's" name: the orthodox ways, and a
tricky one by Carsten Haese:
http://groups.google.com/group/comp....a0d207ca55662/
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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.
Just beginning with Python? This page is a great place to start:
http://wiki.python.org/moin/BeginnersGuide/Programmers
The Python Papers aims to publish "the efforts of Python enthusiats":
http://pythonpapers.org/
The Python Magazine is a technical monthly devoted to Python:
http://pythonmagazine.com
Readers have recommended the "Planet" sites:
http://planetpython.org
http://planet.python.org
comp.lang.python.announce announces new Python software. Be
sure to scan this newsgroup weekly.
http://groups.google.com/groups?oi=d...ython.announce
Python411 indexes "podcasts ... to help people learn Python ..."
Updates appear more-than-weekly:
http://www.awaretek.com/python/index.html
Steve Bethard continues the marvelous tradition early borne by
Andrew Kuchling, Michael Hudson, Brett Cannon, Tony Meyer, and Tim
Lesher 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
Although unmaintained since 2002, the Cetus collection of Python
hyperlinks retains a few gems.
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
Many Python conferences around the world are in preparation.
Watch this space for links to them.
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://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0042/
The online Python Journal is posted at pythonjournal.cognizor.com.
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welcome submission of material that helps people's understanding
of Python use, and offer Web presentation of your work.
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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