QOTW: "XML with elementtree is what makes me never have [to] think about
XML again." -- Istvan Albert
"'Plays well with others' was a strong motivator for Python's design, and
that often means playing by others' rules." -- Tim Peters
Type mutability, and why some types are immutable. This has been
discussed before, and should be a FAQ topic (if it isn't already):
http://groups-beta.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/browse_thread/thread/f05c9cbb7e58db9b
http://www.python.org/tim_one/000195.html
Caching instances of classes for reuse:
http://groups-beta.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/browse_thread/thread/9178beed046956d2
Storing data in a persistant fashion. One link discussing concurrency,
the other discussing data storage mechanisms. A link to PyTables as a
way of storing and indexing large amounts of data, and the announcement
for Dejavu 1.3, which also stores persistant data:
http://groups-beta.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/browse_thread/thread/072e6da39a4e8760
http://groups-beta.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/browse_thread/thread/7f2849d3099abfdc
http://pytables.sourceforge.net/html/WelcomePage.html
http://groups-beta.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/browse_thread/thread/01a77dc70a55fc94
So, you want to use SFTP in Python? Paramiko is the answer (or so I read):
http://groups-beta.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/browse_thread/thread/e95e8482c023fe25
http://www.lag.net/paramiko/
Circular iteration, or any strange iteration tasks? Try itertools!
http://groups-beta.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/browse_thread/thread/42bd800632199d2a
What do PyChecker and Pylint have to do with each other?
Are they configurable? And do *you* know a half-dozen
distinct formats for printing a multi-line text?
http://groups-beta.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/browse_thread/thread/2ff633d4474e52e7/
Jeremy Bowers and Dan Stromberg know that some applications
should do the right thing, whether they happen to have a
bit-mapped user interface at run time or not:
http://groups-beta.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/browse_thread/thread/9ff27f0e5fea2045/
The Bangalore Python Meetup first convened on 22 January 2005:
http://python.meetup.com/158/events/?eventId=3974233&action=pastdetail
Why generator expressions sometimes don't beat list comprehensions, and
fitting Python to requirements. Let not the anti-functional fashion
obscure that filter() still sometimes makes for better coding than the
comparable list comprehension:
http://groups-beta.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/browse_thread/thread/0155347dab27026d
http://groups-beta.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/msg/b15bab678ad9b2dc
Security is hard. Even the narrow aspect of cryptography is
hard, if only for the complication state politics makes of the
mathematics and engineering involved. Paul Rubin, Nick Craig-
Wood, and others present a few details:
http://groups-beta.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/browse_thread/thread/fcf8b0764d369cfa
No, really--Python does *that*, too. Although many people
regard hardware interfacing, and its associated bit-twiddling,
as outside Python's purview, they're ... wrong. See for
yourself how Python makes for *clearer* codings than C or
Java or Assembler or ...:
http://groups-beta.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/browse_thread/thread/ea293235bef39473/
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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=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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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=djq&as_ugroup=comp.lang.python&num=100
http://groups.google.com/groups?meta=site%3Dgroups%26group%3Dcomp.lang.python.*
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