QOTW: "I consider "import *" the first error to be fixed ..." - Robert Kern, author of PyFlakes, a potential replacement for Pylint and Pychecker, on his personal style http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/msg/5bf77b21b3b0caf2 Python 2.6.4 is out; it fixes some small but important bugs in previous 2.6.3 release: http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/t/44f4c166de5e6703/ PEP391: A new way to configure Python logging, using dictionaries: http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/t/3fc3138c22a50678/ Why do you use Python? http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/t/66ccb10d2da5b740/ Is there any value in forcing one class/function per module? (long thread): http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/t/1e0c1e2091539512/ A review of complex solutions to an almost inexistent problem shows constructive criticism in action: http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/t/d218212cabe9670b/ A user module may shadow a standard module of the same name - is it avoidable? http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/t/b31f74b6145c9d94/ copy.deepcopy() is not as "deep" as its name implies: http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/t/d827fd118189fe01/ A long thread about Web development: why to use templates, and why frameworks actually do help developers: http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/t/367025d4d9a2e15d/ Using a module as a place to store application global settings: http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/t/23e21edf1b232b32/ A simple list comprehension question leads to discuss mutability, identity, and Cousin Chuy's Super-Burritos: http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/t/17cfd91ece6ed54f/ Combining map, zip and filter into an equivalent list comprehension: http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/t/259976305282b0c0?q=map timeit: make sure you actually measure what you want, and not other code: http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/t/7ecae76e11f720ee/ Why do compiled C extensions on Windows use '.pyd' in their name instead of '.dll'? http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/t/c8d93871cc5f31dc/ Pyfora, a web forum about Python, was lauched recently. Will this fragment the community? http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/t/e6e0d99c995da697/ A guy's future book on programming Python doesn't fit standard practice (a long thread!): http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/t/6918784f36d147d2/ ======================================================================== Everything Python-related you want is probably one or two clicks away in these pages:
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