QOTW: "... it's just laziness and hubris passed off under the banner of agility." - Clifford Heath, on the fashion of justification of "metaschemas" because those darn data architects are just too slow
Efficient way to apply a function to every element in a list, discarding the results: http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.python.general/663445/ Counting occurrences of every item in a list: http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/t/317d9828b0d4c1c6 The meaning of '\b' in regular expressions may be confusing: http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/t/baa73e8838858aa3 A better algorithm for random sampling: http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/t/28cdc0af76be03f7 PyUseCase helps make GUI testing maintainable: http://www.texttest.org/index.php?page=ui_testing How to pass additional arguments to __getattr__: http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/t/ddc79f3b0621b73d Properties and inheritance - looking for the simplest way to make it work: http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/t/753eafbc3a3a1f19 Inconsistent handling of StopIteration between generator expressions and list, set and dict comprehensions: http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/t/ec5f723657352217 Metaclass for easier __slots__ handling, and even inheriting them: http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/t/971cc3583988d6e2 How to distinguish between a built-in class and a user-defined one: http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.python.general/663296/ Reasons not to inherit both from Decimal and float at the same time: http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/t/65f5a80088c91938 The New Wave of command line parsers is out: http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/t/92c3bc11302ed1e7 Handling of sql parameters and escape characters, in two related questions: http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.python.general/663514 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.python.general/663481 Style: how to properly indent an 'if' statement with a long condition, so the end of it is clearly distinguishable from the statement that follows: http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/t/e1aac5553db5ec07 A simple, but hard to find problem using ctypes and the _fields_ name: httpgroups.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/t/b22c9d412a97eb90 Looking for big Python powered web sites and applications: http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.python67a3fdc543cf5dfa1c6 http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/t/bc80c1bae46aba04 A new Python web forum announcement - is it good news or bad news? http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/t/17011e77f9bc51c8 ======================================================================== 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 enthusiasts": http://pythonpapers.org/ The Python Magazine is a technical monthly devoted to Python: http://pythonmagazine.com Readers have recommended the "Planet" site: 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/ 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 nullege is an interesting search Web application, with the intelligence to distinguish between Python code and comments. It provides what appear to be relevant results, and demands neither Java nor CSS be enabled: http://www.nullege.com 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. It already aggregates quite a bit of Python intelligence. http://del.icio.us/tag/python Enjoy the *Python Magazine*. http://pymag.phparch.com/ *Py: the Journal of the Python Language* http://www.pyzine.com Dr.Dobb's Portal is another source of Python news and articles: http://www.ddj.com/TechSearch/searchResults.jhtml?queryText=python and Python articles regularly appear at IBM DeveloperWorks: http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/search/searchResults.jsp?searchSite=dW&searchScope=dW&encodedQuery=python&rankprofile=8 Previous - (U)se the (R)esource, (L)uke! - messages are listed here: http://search.gmane.org/?query=python+URL+weekly+news+links&group=gmane.comp.python.general&sort=date http://groups.google.com/groups/search?q=Python-URL!+group%3Acomp.lang.python&start=0&scoring=d& http://lwn.net/Search/DoSearch?words=python-url&ctype3=yes&cat_25=yes There is *not* an RSS for "Python-URL!"--at least not yet. Arguments for and against are occasionally entertained. 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