QOTW: "I've forgotten what we are arguing about, but I'm sure I'm
right." -- Jive Dadson
"I believe the best strategy against Identity theft is bad
credit." -- Tom Willis
"You can't live without unit tests. And once you have unit tests, the
added value of declarations is tiny, and their cost remains." -- martellibot
Make history, instead of having it happen to you: the
upcoming PyPy Sprint promises to be singular:
http://groups-beta.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/browse_thread/thread/6f0458c61169eff1/
Brian van den Broek, Roy Smith, BJ=F6rn_Lindqvist, Jason
Diamond, and Grig Gheorghiu introduce the crucial subject
of unit-testing in Python for those new to test-driven
development:
http://groups-beta.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/browse_thread/thread/bbda0385fa4e1de7/
http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/python/2004/12/02/tdd_pyunit.html
How do you know that Python has "arrived"? When its use is
the least interesting part of a project. Notice that, once
again, Python is handy in "process control", traditionally
a domain for assembler, C, and Basic:
http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/7403
Philip dives deeply into Python optimization issues:
http://dirtsimple.org/2005/02/optimization-surprises.html
http://dirtsimple.org/2005/02/from-nine-to-five.html
Not only does Martin Franklin provide a new TableList widget
for Tkinter, but he clearly describes how he did so, apparently
in the belief that such knowledge might be useful to others:
http://mail.python.org/pipermail/tkinter-discuss/2005-February/000320.html
Stewart Midwinter answers with a "poor-man's table widget":
http://mail.python.org/pipermail/tkinter-discuss/2005-February/000325.html
Philip Schoenborn explores RAII and related Python deli-
cacies related to resource management--in print!
http://ddj.com/articles/2005/0503/
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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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