QOTW: "Is this one of those deals where you tickle a file with that 'mouse' thing, and then a dialog box from an irrelevant program pops up and steals the focus before you can finish what you started? I love stuff like that." -Tim Peters "[T]he distinctive difference between PCs and other consumer electronics is that only PCs are allowed to fail in routine use." -Peter Coffee Does Python deserve a boolean type? Powerful minds analyze PEP 285. http://groups.google.com/groups?th=3d8f05b445cdbf9b Aahz echoes timbot's entreaties to esteem the benefits of Queue.Queue. http://groups.google.com/groups?th=1e465bd53977862f April Fool's roundup: ZWiki Author Disillusioned...Rubymortis sets in. - see "Big news" http://zwiki.org/GeneralDiscussion http://zwiki.org/GeneralDiscussion200204 (future archive) ZopeNewbies: Microsoft takes over Zope http://www.zopenewbies.net/1017662225/index_html Sestina deemed best format for switch statement implementation http://www.acmenet.net/~jilhan/sesform.html Docstrings requirement feature in 2.2.1 avoidable by use of "" SOAP to be transported over IRC; finger/whois replaces WSDL. The real Tkinter documentation URL: http://groups.google.com/groups?th=83aa5100ac5e4d76&seekm=slrnaa7ic5.ehu.philh%40comuno.freeserve.co.uk#link20 Bob McMillan elicits "Python's Creator Guido van Rossum's Take on Open Source's Favorite Serpent" http://www.linux-mag.com/2001-12/rossum_01.html Plotting Pointers: http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-list/2002-March/094177.html Nicolas Chauvat is looking for interested people to form a Logic-SIG or CLP-SIG. http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-list/2002-March/094019.html Reading binary as text is not the easiest way.. http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-list/2002-March/094424.html Coding can be pure poetry... http://groups.google.com/groups?th=83aa5100ac5e4d76&seekm=FC718F7B3AF20F62.09ECC4E1E82F69E7.7E08A6AB55BAC1B9%40lp.airnews.net#link6 Measuring memory allocation http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-list/2002-March/094191.html Messaging or Threading..and safely http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-list/2002-March/094235.html PEP 262: Database of Installed Python Packages Moving into Interface Development and on to Integration ======================================================================== Everything 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 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. comp.lang.python.announce announces new Python software. Be sure to scan this newly-revitalized newsgroup at least weekly. http://groups.google.com/groups?oi=djq&as_ugroup=comp.lang.python.announce Michael Hudson continued Andrew Kuchling's marvelous tradition of summarizing action on the python-dev mailing list once every other week, into July 2001. Any volunteers to re-start this valuable series? http://starship.python.net/crew/mwh/summaries/ http://www.amk.ca/python/dev The Vaults of Parnassus ambitiously collect 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 Software Foundation has replaced the Python Consortium as an independent nexus of activity http://www.python.org/psf/ Cetus does much of the same http://www.cetus-links.org/oo_python.html Python FAQTS http://python.faqts.com/ 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/. editor@pythonjournal.com and editor@pythonjournal.cognizor.com welcome submission of material that helps people's understanding of Python use, and offer Web presentation of your work. *Py: the Journal of the Python Language* http://www.pyzine.com Links2Go is a new semi-automated link collection; it's impressive what AI can generate http://www.links2go.com/search?search=python Tenth International Python Conference http://www.python10.org 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.* Previous - (U)se the (R)esource, (L)uke! - messages are listed here: http://www.ddj.com/topics/pythonurl/ http://purl.org/thecliff/python/url.html (dormant) or http://groups.google.com/groups?oi=djq&as_q=+Python-URL!&as_ugroup=comp.lang.python Suggestions/corrections for next week's posting are always welcome. 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