QOTW: "I think my code is clearer, but I wouldn't go so far as to say I'm
violently opposed to your code. I save violent opposition for really
important matters like which text editor you use." - Roy Smith
"You need to recursively subdivide the cake until you have a piece small
enough to fit in your input buffer. Then the atomicity of the cake-ingestion
operation will become apparent." - Scott David Daniels
Various Python Meetup groups are meeting this week:
http://python.meetup.com/
wxPython 2.5.5.1 is out...
http://groups-beta.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/browse_thread/thread/7ca6358d54c9c617/84330473f542e5a6
... for those that don't hate it.
http://fraca7.free.fr/blog/index.php?2005/04/04/10-a-word-about-guis
A couple of nice cookbook recipes - check your docstring coverage, and let
Python tell you what you meant to type.
http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/Cookbook/Python/Recipe/355731
http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/Cookbook/Python/Recipe/409000
Exceptions are't just for errors in Python.
http://groups-beta.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/browse_thread/thread/925f0b16cf56c2ab/793e0ab436c91d48
The martellibot's working for Google!
http://groups-beta.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/browse_thread/thread/c9d075e5f6b1f934/d6256652f5ffcc50
Backup your del.icio.usly linked pages to Gmail.
http://llimllib.f2o.org/blog/serve/entry/delbackup
How to tell whether a wave function corresponds to bosons or fermions.
http://groups-beta.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/browse_thread/thread/e9cce91f429bc540/d78c7eec409154a4
No, I'm none the wiser, either. Still, some interesting algorithms in there.
Rolling your own __deepcopy__.
http://groups-beta.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/browse_thread/thread/41269228e1827a87/444ac776c4ffe00f
IronPython is getting good coverage these days.
http://informationweek.com/story/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=160403713
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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/PythonProgrammersWeblog
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=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.
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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