QOTW: "Anything with 'Python' in its name can't market Python
well." - Iain Bicking
"Who really cares whether NASA uses Python? One thing I learned from
having to sit through too many software marketing presentations is
that organizations like NASA are to software what the Library of
Congress is
QOTW: "Testing real examples in doctstrings, or external documentation like
tutorials, is important because it's very frustrating for people reading
the docs if the examples don't work as advertised." - Marc Rintsch
"If you don't document what the sundry variables are FOR, you're really
not docume
QOTW: "Don't be too sure that it's compatible for the indefinite future. XML
is just as future-proof as any other format." - Sybren Stuvel
"Submitting a proposed change or fix [of the Python docs] is easier and
quicker than arguing about it on c.l.py and it seems to get pretty quickly
to the actua
QOTW: "If you can find a workable solution not involving metaclasses
and decorators, don't use them" - Michele Simionato
"Newest Beautiful Soup beta solves everyone's problems that I know
of." - Leonard Richardson
Jeff Croft gives a good introduction to the Django web framework. Don't
le
QOTW: "It seems if you lurk here [on comp.lang.python] long enough you
eventually get all you[r] questions answered without even asking!" - Ted Landis
"We're going to learn from Python. JavaScript is pretty close to Python"
- Brendan Eich
Scott David Daniels shows how to find all occurrenc
QOTW: "It's hard to make a mistake by having too many short and simple
functions. And much too easy to make them when you have too few ;-)"
- Thomas Bartkus
"Argh, the following is valid Python syntax: assert a is not b - XXX
in-progress"
- Armin Rigo (found on Michael Hudson's blog)
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