QOTW: "These days, I know that I blindly hit 'd' whenever I see '**ANYTHING IN CAPS**', since it tends to be related to some very interesting financial transaction involving some African country. So welcome to c.l.p, and I bet you a repost without the spam-triggering ALLCAPS will get you some good answers." Fernando Pérez "No other language [than Python] is more successful in vanishing behind the problem." Christian Tismer Articles and threads A long discussion on the relative benefits of Python and Lisp, including several variants of Lisp such as Scheme and Logo reveals some insights into the similarities and differences: http://groups.google.com/groups?threadm=mailman.1036969814.9278.python-list%40python.org A typical question about how to parse hierarchical structures with regular expressions (something which regular expressions are not well suited for) results in some insights: http://groups.google.com/groups?threadm=2259b0e2.0211060659.30631e4f%40posting.google.com This article shows how quickly discovered defects get fixed and checked in after they're found: http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=m2u1ivlxkh.fsf%40python.net A very long, detailed discussion of Parrot emphasizes security issues for a parrot daemon and language-agnosticism: http://groups.google.com/groups?threadm=3dccfcbb%240%24200%24edfadb0f%40dread11.news.tele.dk Donnal Walter asks a question about exactly what the PSF license means for non-PSF organizations: http://groups.google.com/groups?threadm=918bc22f.0211092028.59e3a4ad%40posting.google.com Jon Ribbens asks a question about how to create large portable constants in light of PEP 237 and the fact that hex/oct constants greater than sys.maxint will return positive, not negative values, in Python 2.4 and later: http://groups.google.com/groups?threadm=s0qeqa.no3.ln%40beastie.ix.netcom.com Software Per Gummedal announces the port of Python 2.2.2 to AS/400: http://home.no.net/pgummeda/ SalStat is a rapid statistics package for the analysis of scientific package, using Python wxPython: http://salstat.sunsite.dk/ The ctypes module supports the creation and manipulation of C data types in Python. These can then be passed to C functions loaded from dynamic link libraries. http://starship.python.net/crew/theller/ctypes.html eyeD3 is a Python module that reads both version 1 and version 2 ID3 tags and MP3 headers: http://freshmeat.net/projects/eyed3/?topic_id=120%2C912 Slideshow is a portable SDL-based presentation framework: http://www.alobbs.com/modules.php?op=modload&name=slideshow&file=index Resources Volume 3 of the Python Journal is available, concentrating on "practical tasks": map display, text filtering, Python embedding, and dynamic Web site generation: http://pythonjournal.cognizor.com/ Patrick O'Brien has written an article titled "Python persistence management": http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/linux/library/l-pypers.html Richard Jones proposes PEP 301, detailing some extensions to the Distutils packaging system: http://www.python.org/peps/pep-0301.html ======================================================================== 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 Brett Cannon continues the marvelous tradition established by Andrew Kuchling and Michael Hudson of summarizing action on the python-dev mailing list once every other week. 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/. [email protected] and [email protected] 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. E-mail to <[email protected]> should get through. 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