QOTW: "You can lead an idiot to idioms, but you can't make him think ;-)" -- Steve Holden
"A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds." -- Ralph Waldo Emerson (used by Tim Churches, and also found in http://www.python.org/peps/pep-0008.html) PyPy has come a long way - and made great progress with release 0.7: http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/msg/5f12849e4c28fc6c Processing large XML files can be tedious, especially when using DOM. Jog shows ways to do so, and ElementTree is as usual amongst the best, both api- and performance-wise: http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/msg/b1b259c448a867e9 Date processing is often way more difficult than one thinks - in languages that don't have a rich date api like python, that is: http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/msg/9d125ca55b83b17a Not exactly new, these new-style classes. But you can always find nifty details you didn't know about: http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/browse_frm/thread/3fa6468b47d5334c/8118bfd6cf266c13#8118bfd6cf266c13 Congratulations to SpamBayes contributors on the announcement that *Personal Computer World* awarded that project its "Editors' Choice" award, besting competitors including products from Symantec, McAfee, and so on: http://pcw.co.uk There is always room for new syntax proposals, like a "isa" keyword to sugar isinstance - and while it's unlikely to become part of the language, discussing it produces nice insights: http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/msg/36b504905a36155d Often requested, but never realized: a yield to yield them all. Apparently this won't change soon, but yield itself is going to become an expression: http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/msg/d66f346c98b8eac6 Using struct to marshal C-structures is easy - dealing with pointers in them, too: http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/msg/13eb61975154a25d ======================================================================== 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/ 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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