QOTW: "If you have good, experienced people who are able to withstand the pressure to deliver no matter what and are familiar with the problem domain, then any project is on the way to succeess no matter what technology was chosen in my experience. The choice of type system is way down on the list." - Stefan Axelsson
Performance comparison: multiprocessing vs threading: http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/t/f99326a4e5d394e/ A speed boost of more than 15% in many common situations is exciting: http://bugs.python.org/issue4753 How to seek to the last line in a text file: http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/t/e24ac82e6d236c1e/ Counting elements - where a "bag" class would be useful: http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/t/68acebd75fb7c61c/ How (and when) to forcibly kill a thread: http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/t/c080c23fed0f8a5a/ Getting all function defined in a file: http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/t/7be03c127bd8eabe/ Debugging embedded applications: http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/t/1edb44574e4da6b6/ Guilherme Polo nicely illustrates embedding in a tktable Tkinter cell: http://mail.python.org/pipermail/tkinter-discuss/2009-January/001787.html Running Python scripts inside a web browser: http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/t/d977140a3a163025/ Unpacking tuples of different sizes: http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/t/b8eb96ba3097a27e/ http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/t/ecf29cdc64010a4d/ Why isn't `some*(arbitrary-expression) = value` allowed? http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/t/75a63598d7f0b60c/ It's not a good idea to create many logger instances: http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/t/31c394f0bd0bc8b3/ ======================================================================== 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 Just beginning with Python? This page is a great place to start: http://wiki.python.org/moin/BeginnersGuide/Programmers The Python Papers aims to publish "the efforts of Python enthusiats": http://pythonpapers.org/ The Python Magazine is a technical monthly devoted to Python: http://pythonmagazine.com Readers have recommended the "Planet" sites: http://planetpython.org http://planet.python.org comp.lang.python.announce announces new Python software. Be sure to scan this newsgroup weekly. http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.python.announce/topics Python411 indexes "podcasts ... to help people learn Python ..." Updates appear more-than-weekly: http://www.awaretek.com/python/index.html 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/donations/ The Summary of Python Tracker Issues is an automatically generated report summarizing new bugs, closed ones, and patch submissions. http://search.gmane.org/?author=status%40bugs.python.org&group=gmane.comp.python.devel&sort=date Although unmaintained since 2002, the Cetus collection of Python hyperlinks retains a few gems. 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://code.activestate.com/recipes/langs/python/ Many Python conferences around the world are in preparation. Watch this space for links to them. Among several Python-oriented RSS/RDF feeds available, see: http://www.python.org/channews.rdf 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://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0042/ del.icio.us presents an intriguing approach to reference commentary. 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