QOTW: "So far as I know, that actually just means that the test suite is insufficient." - Peter Seebach, when an application passes all its tests http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.lisp/msg/29aff9595bb0eac0
Administrative note: it's been a while--since the end of October 2010, in fact; "Python-URL!" has been dormant all that time. It looks as though we're re-activating now, though, and the next month should make apparent whether we've returned to our roughly-weekly schedule. A few minor structural changes are afoot; likely to be of broadest interest is that "twits" can now follow "Python-URL!" on <URL: http://twitter.com/Phaseit >. PyCon2011 had IDE news that made the trade press: http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Application-Development/Microsoft-Launches-Python-Tools-for-Visual-Studio-Beta-638994/?kc=EWKNLITA03152011STR3 Kirby Urner reflects on the virtues of our built-in battery tester: http://mail.python.org/pipermail/edu-sig/2011-February/010179.html regex is important. It's also widely mis-understood, and often results in little more than frustration. This conversation about regex's special characters ends happily: http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/browse_thread/thread/e8ea8cc833aebac2 While file extensions are among the many topics Python has handled deftly for over two decades now, the best handling continues to update occasionally: http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/browse_thread/thread/6b166a07312c2c12 ======================================================================== 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. SciPyTip is a high-quality daily (!) tip for the numerically- inclined: http://twitter.com/SciPyTip 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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