QOTW: "It's not perfect, but then nobody in this thread has offered anything even remotely resembling perfect documentation for regular expressions yet. <wink>" - Peter Hansen
"Python's flavor of OO is perfectly valid and usable, even though it doesn't follow the Java Holy Bible of Object Orientation (gasp!)" - Hans Nowak "It's highly arguable if Python is "better" than C#, but from a control-your-own-destiny angle, Python is a complete slam dunk. Python works well on *nix, Java, .NET and Mac OS X. It's open source. It's sane. But I won't argue it's fast. It's usually just not so slow you care." - Jonathan Rentzsch String Manipulation in Python: http://www.devshed.com/c/a/Python/String-Manipulation/ Why you can't detect a float's significant digits: http://groups-beta.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/browse_thread/thread/85eaac30c01b51a5 Dependency Injection The Python Way: http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/Cookbook/Python/Recipe/413268 What is Paste? http://blog.ianbicking.org/what-is-paste.html Finding peaks and valleys: http://groups-beta.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/browse_thread/thread/6506673a689339b7 Type-safe Enums in Python: http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/Cookbook/Python/Recipe/413486 Python turns up again in a Microsoft outpost: http://www.informit.com/guides/content.asp?g=windowsserver&seqNum=183&rl=1 Encryption with Python: http://groups-beta.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/browse_thread/thread/5fb9ffada975bae9 The importance of being selfish, deja vu: http://zephyrfalcon.org/weblog2/arch_e10_00770.html#e776 Notable releases: CherryPy-2.0-final: http://groups-beta.google.com/group/comp.lang.python.announce/browse_thread/thread/8905b9f2bd114f38 BeautifulSoup 2.1.0: http://www.crummy.com/software/BeautifulSoup/ KirbyBase 1.8.2: http://www.netpromi.com/kirbybase.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. 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 Steve Bethard, Tim Lesher, and Tony Meyer continue the marvelous tradition early borne by Andrew Kuchling, Michael Hudson and Brett Cannon 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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