QOTW: "As you learn Python, you will find that your PHP code will
improve, possibly becoming more and more concise until it disappears
completely." - Jorey Bump
(Responding to a quotaton of Sturgeon's law: "Ninety percent of
everything is crap.") "fwiw, this is of course why google displays 10
results on the first page. according to the law, one of them is always
exactly what you want." - Fredrik Lundh
Testing for an empty iterator:
http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/Cookbook/Python/Recipe/413614
Python email libraries, part 1: POP3:
http://www.devshed.com/c/a/Python/Python-Email-Libraries-part-1-POP3/
Solipsis, a peer-to-peer system for a massively multi-participant virtual
world:
http://solipsis.netofpeers.net/wiki/HomePage/
Twisted reStructuredText server:
http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/Cookbook/Python/Recipe/413609
How can Python's documentation be improved?
http://groups-beta.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/browse_thread/th...
Static typing exposed:
http://seanmcgrath.blogspot.com/archives/2005_05_08_seanmcgrath_archi...
Finding Unique Elements in a List:
http://groups-beta.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/browse_thread/th...
Diving into PyParsing:
http://www.advogato.org/person/titus/diary.html?start=89
Notable releases:
PyGTK 2.6.2:
http://www.pygtk.org/
Python for .NET 1.0 RC1
http://www.zope.org/Members/Brian/PythonNet
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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.ann...
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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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...
http://groups.google.com/groups?meta=site%3Dgroups%26group%3Dcomp.lan...
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