QOTW: “Python’s a language you can swear by, not at.” –
Chris
“Every sufficiently advanced LISP application will eventually
reimplement Python.” – Hodgson’s Law
Chad Himeda asks for a nested loop limit and Peter Hansen
answers with a quick test on the commandline. A discussion on the
merits of code approaching this limit entrails.
http://groups.google.com/groups?threadm=fd07865f.0407071045.16e20c84%40posting.google.com
Karl Pech wants to calculate PI using the Monte Carlo method –
and fast.
http://groups.google.com/groups?threadm=ccke8p%24c0h%2406%241%40news.t-online.com
Chris recollects how he fell in love with Python.
http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=mailman.138.1089318827.5135.python-list%40python.org
Marco Aschwanden asks for opinions on the use of multiple return
statements in a single function.
http://groups.google.com/groups?threadm=mailman.158.1089358188.5135.python-list%40python.org
Bryan Olson searches for the longest matching prefix of a string
using regular expressions. Michael Hudson offers an alternate
approach.
http://groups.google.com/groups?threadm=gN5Hc.12587%24ia1.1667%40newssvr27.news.prodigy.com
Contrary to the current documentation, the open() builtin is not
retained for compatibility only. It may even grow some extra logic
and no longer be confined to ordinary files.
http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2004-July/045931.html
Guido van Rossum is less concerned about variable names shading
builtins than many posters on c.l.py.
http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2004-July/045948.html
Anthony Baxter announces release of the first alpha version of
Python 2.4. You are invited to download and participate in the
test.
http://groups.google.com/groups?threadm=mailman.157.1089357112.5135.python-list%40python.org
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.
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
Brett Cannon continues the marvelous tradition established by
Andrew Kuchling and Michael Hudson 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.
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
The Python Business Forum “further[s] the interests of companies
that base their business on … Python.”
http://www.python-in-business.org
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
Cetus collects Python hyperlinks.
http://www.cetus-links.org/oo_python.html
Python FAQTS
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
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welcome submission of material that helps people’s understanding of
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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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