QOTW: Jim Fulton: "[What's] duck typing?"
Andrew Koenig: "That's the Australian pronunciation of 'duct taping'."
"I'm thinking that the I-Ching is a vast untapped resource for programming
wisdom, plus it makes it funny." -- Mark Carter
Nick Coghlan brings up the 'lambdas are going away in 3.0' topic, which
has been discussed before:
http://groups-beta.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/browse_thread/thread/81e17b1d3ccba538
A user asks about a non-generator-based method for iteration using class
__iter__ and next() methods:
http://groups-beta.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/browse_thread/thread/6336a00ad217888a
Daniel Bickett asks about getting Twisted and wxPython working together,
and receives both a threaded and non-threaded version:
http://groups-beta.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/browse_thread/thread/73f1e7758225afc3
A question about iterating over floats...be careful!
http://groups-beta.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/browse_thread/thread/1278866159ac4429
A Boogieman asks whether Python is easily learned and what can be done
with it. Quick answer: yes, and anything you are capable of doing:
This Boogieman later asks about GUI toolkits:
http://groups-beta.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/browse_thread/thread/e67b776df72eb336
http://groups-beta.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/browse_thread/thread/d502698b4adacd01
Erik Bethke writes Majong game after using Python for a month. Ahh, will
the wonders of Python never cease?
http://groups-beta.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/browse_thread/thread/6d710e35007f0f32
Kamilche asks about getting warnings when not calling a function, and gets
pointed to pychecker, something more of us should be using:
http://groups-beta.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/browse_thread/thread/dff810b7dacd247c
Are people allowed to build commercial applications in Python? YES!
http://groups-beta.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/browse_thread/thread/aa953388db68b196
Questions about asyncore brings up a web server in asyncore from _Python
Web Programming_, and a pointer to Twisted. Alternatively, one could look
at the asynchat or smtpd modules in the standard library as sources of
inspiration:
http://groups-beta.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/browse_thread/thread/81360ec06013e36d
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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.
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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welcome submission of material that helps people's understanding
of Python use, and offer Web presentation of your work.
deli.cio.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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