QOTW: "I still think this is a silly idea, but at least it doesn't track mud all over Python's nice clean rugs." -- Michael J. Fromberger http://groups-beta.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/browse_thread/thread/dde861393aa5a68/eb3a5e53f9743413
"Basically, in tk, canvases are for vector drawing; in other toolkits, they're more for bitmap drawing. And this makes quite a difference..." -- Eric Brunel Lovers of the eric3 editor get a new 3.5.1 release. http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-list/2004-November/252450.html Lovers of the Wing IDE editor get a new 2.0.1 release. http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-list/2004-December/253698.html Sometimes the `struct` module's use and structure aren't obvious to the new user. Tim Peters and Peter Hanson help clarify. http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-list/2004-November/252741.html A company in New York is looking for a Python deveoper for Zope work. I know there has to be someone in NYC with that kind of experience. http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-list/2004-December/252840.html Locks, mutexes, Semaphores - Oh My! Discussion of when to use what. Hint: they are basically the same, only speed and internal implementation really set them apart. RLock, Condition, Event, etc., add functionality. http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-list/2004-December/252869.html Gordon Williams asks about set intersections. Raymond Hettinger confirms that set intersection with the `set` module does the right thing. http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-list/2004-December/253142.html A nice one-liner for DNA recombinations. Be careful with the size of your input, you don't want to go and segfault with a 512M element list... http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-list/2004-December/252970.html Armin Ringo releases Psyco 1.3, for those of us who like our Python to execute faster. Support for Python 2.1-2.4 is included, as well as more support for local variables. http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-list/2004-December/253234.html Alia Khouri asks "why no python setup.py uninstall?" and gets basically no response. It brings up the topic of Python package management, which has been discussed before. http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-list/2004-December/253316.html http://python.org/peps/pep-0301.html Andre Roberge asks for advice on naming a new (claimed better) version of "Guido van Robot", which is an instructional tool for new programmers. http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-list/2004-December/253453.html ======================================================================== 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=djq&as_ugroup=comp.lang.python.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_usubject=weekly%20python%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?ShowMatch=python&ShowStatus=all The old Python "To-Do List" now lives principally in a SourceForge reincarnation. http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?atid=355470&group_id=5470&func=browse http://python.sourceforge.net/peps/pep-0042.html The online Python Journal is posted at pythonjournal.cognizor.com. 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