QOTW: "Who's 'Guido'?" -- Ilias Lazaridis
"I know this document. It has no relevance to me." -- Ilias
Lazaridis, on <URL: http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html >
"Nobody asked them to do this (AFAIK), it's more that nobody could
_stop_ them from doing it." -- timbot, on the work of Jason Tishler
and Andrew MacIntyre with Cygwin and OS/2 EMX, respectively
Hot off the virtual press: Py2.4 Quick Reference:
http://groups-beta.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/browse_thread/thread/5be203da13eafdd2/
For a decade now, confident people have declaimed in
managers' meetings and conferences that {local,Web}
applications are {dead,utterly triumphant}, in all
combinations (and sometimes at the same venues) (and
sometimes by the same people!) (although not by the
same people at the same time). Real Programmers know
they need judgment and expertise on both sides. The
principal implications for Python: client-side Web
scripting is one of the few domains where Python is
*not* nearly ideal (although not for technical reasons);
but the best "Weblications" still can result from co-
operation between Python and other languages:
http://groups-beta.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/browse_thread/thread/b0085890efa29780/
Kartic and Tony Meyer provide nice two-minute tutorials
on imaplib, and, more generally, network programming:
http://groups-beta.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/browse_thread/thread/c8f87f28f00a9c93/
Tkinter has modal dialogues:
http://groups-beta.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/browse_thread/thread/8fce072f149f13c0/
Ron Stephens entertainingly advertises pyGoogle:
http://groups-beta.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/browse_thread/thread/e28557ad49b4619a/
Peaceful coexistence:
http://groups-beta.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/browse_thread/thread/3adfa3b1148aaa8e/
http://groups-beta.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/browse_thread/thread/3775e1b575d8fb67/
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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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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=djq&as_ugroup=comp.lang.python&num=100
http://groups.google.com/groups?meta=site%3Dgroups%26group%3Dcomp.lang.python.*
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http://purl.org/thecliff/python/url.html (dormant)
or
http://groups.google.com/groups?oi=djq&as_q=+Python-URL!&as_ugroup=comp.lang.python
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