QOTW: "If you're sick of answering newbie questions, and don't think you
can do so politely, for the sake of the community, DON'T! You're not that
necessary." - Joal Heagney
"Who controls the runtime also controls the language." - Kay Schluehr
Jake tells us about the \r control character, which allows one to
refresh a terminal line. Many people help him to use it from Python,
and Fredrik warns him that it might well not work from an IDE:
http://groups-beta.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/browse_thread/thread/50cffbb6eb03cc4
John Reese asks whether he needs to explicitly close file objects,
or whether reference counting will take care of it for him. Martin
v. Löwis shows a scenario that demonstrates that ref counting won't
always close files when you think it will:
http://groups-beta.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/browse_thread/thread/7eba2d6efd271707
Simon Percivall and Jp Calderone show Michael Chermside how to
process subprocess module output a line at a time:
http://groups-beta.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/browse_thread/thread/df6854ec10c6d508
WSGI Explorations with Python - Mike Orr investigates WSGI and Paste:
http://rex.kicks-ass.net/python/wsgi-explorations.html
Len, an "old time Cobol programmer", asks for some advice on storing data:
http://groups-beta.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/browse_thread/thread/c20623a77b22c456
Dustin is refactoring some unpythonic code that uses a very nasty
import mechanism, but now he's having trouble with circular imports:
http://groups-beta.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/browse_thread/thread/8eae5075b9973a2b
A Matter Of Questions - Ben Last tells us how he's using Python for
data cleansing, amongst other things, while building a Playstation
Music Quiz:
http://www.livejournal.com/users/benlast/24719.html
William Park wants to test how similar two strings are. This is
more complicated than it sounds...
http://groups-beta.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/browse_thread/thread/4aa08f075d05eb48
Create an ODBC data source in the fly with Python:
http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/Cookbook/Python/Recipe/414879
Paul Rubin investigates how the super() function works with
multiple inheritance. A number of people clear things up for him.
http://groups-beta.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/browse_thread/thread/57cdcc73f8747091
Notable releases:
pysqlite 2.0.2
http://pysqlite.org/
PyPy 0.6 (!)
http://groups-beta.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/browse_thread/thread/8e4a74dfb90c8bf4
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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.announce
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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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=100
http://groups.google.com/groups?meta=site%3Dgroups%26group%3Dcomp.lang.python.*
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