QOTW: "This wouldn't be the first place where my fondness for things that
work has gotten me into trouble ..." -- Nick Vargish, on Python
"Typing is cheap. Thinking is expensive." Roy Smith
Computer Associates International Inc. ... well, it's not clear
*what* it's doing, apart from publicity, but one possible
outcome is that thoroughly Pythonic Plone will suddenly become
welcome in The Enterprise
http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,1599309,00.asp
http://plone.org/foundation/announcement
http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/040524/nym203_1.html
IBM now employs distinguished Pythoneer Mark Pilgrim
http://diveintomark.org/archives/2004/03/01/blue
Fernando Perez writes penetratingly on Python as a substitute for,
say, bash for daily work
http://www.scipy.net/pipermail/ipyth...il/000275.html
Jacek Generowicz not only asks for agreement that "compiling
dynamics languages ... can give significant speedups", but
presents evidence for the proposition
http://groups.google.com/groups?fram...348b3083caf371
"There Ain't No Such Thing As Plain Text" engages the passion of Paul
Prescod, Roger Binns, and other experienced Pythoneers
http://groups.google.com/groups?fram...1304412c3dd9a8
Riverbank Computing announces PyQt v3.12
http://www.riverbankcomputing.co.uk/pyqt/index.php
The next General Assembly of the Python Business Forum will
be on 9 June 2004 in Goteborg, at the end of EuroPython 2004
http://www.python-in-business.org
http://www.europython.org/conference...update20040519
Kent Johsnon illustrates why Python's callbacks are better than
Java inner classes
http://www.pycs.net/users/0000323/we...05/19.html#P46
Greg Wilson gives his vision of extensibility
http://www.third-bit.com/~gvwilson/xmlprog.html
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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=d...ython.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.
http://www.python.org/pypi/
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
http://www.python.org/sigs/
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
http://python.faqts.com/
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?...ShowStatus=all
The old Python "To-Do List" now lives principally in a
SourceForge reincarnation.
http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?atid...70&func=browse
http://python.sourceforge.net/peps/pep-0042.html
The online Python Journal is posted at pythonjournal.cognizor.com.
and
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
Archive probing tricks of the trade:
http://groups.google.com/groups?oi=d...python&num=100
http://groups.google.com/groups?meta....lang.python.*
Previous - (U)se the (R)esource, (L)uke! - messages are listed here:
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or
http://groups.google.com/groups?oi=djq&as_q=+Python-URL!&as_ugroup=comp.lang.python
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