QOTW: "Regexps are a brittle tool, best tolerated in small doses." - Tim Peters
"Simplicity is prerequisite for reliability" - Edsger W. Dijkstra eval(repr(var)) sometimes works for serialization but don't count on it. http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/browse_thread/thread/71b54c23162ffcd9/ More than you ever wanted to know about the types of regular expression engines and their history. http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/browse_thread/thread/cd20b4cabc6fe26/ Folks discuss their favorite libraries that make multiple and parallel processing easier. http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/browse_thread/thread/ba9fe6b206e6beca/ Could python be changed to have no reserved keywords? How about we make the color of a variable change its meaning? A romp through PL/I, FORTRAN, and Color Forth. http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/browse_thread/thread/cb0eae075930228a/ Text editors for writing python. Emacs and vi sit this one out and no flame war erupts. http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/browse_thread/thread/4aff7ef699633bf9/ The string 'in' operator implementation is different between 2.4 and 2.5 (in 2.5 it got faster) http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/browse_thread/thread/114846082ffdb5d8/ For small databases almost any will do. Here are suggestions. http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/browse_thread/thread/5614505bc1f62986/ Releases of Note Python 2.5 Release Candidate 2 - This is your last chance to contribute feedback before 2.5 Final. http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/browse_thread/thread/d2b9d202a1dbaa4e/ XPN 0.6.5 - Multi-platform newsreader written in Python and GTK. http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/browse_thread/thread/9366f96b404dc9c9/ CoreBio 0.4 - a Python library for bioinformatics and computational biology http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/browse_thread/thread/f28a8245087d589d/ Leo 4.4.1.1 - Leo is a text editor, project manager, and more http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/browse_thread/thread/63a7a53e83b0fa9e/ Upcoming Community Events Plone Conference 2006, October 25-27 (Seattle, Washington) http://plone.org/events/conferences/seattle-2006 Open Source Developers Conference December 5-8 (Melbourne, Australia) http://www.osdc.com.au/ PyCon 2007, February 23-25 (Dallas, TX) http://us.pycon.org/TX2007/HomePage RuPy 2007, April 7-8 (Poznan, Poland) http://rupy.wmid.amu.edu.pl/ ======================================================================== 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. For far, FAR more Python reading than any one mind should absorb, much of it quite interesting, several pages index much of the universe of Pybloggers. http://lowlife.jp/cgi-bin/moin.cgi/PythonProgrammersWeblog http://www.planetpython.org/ http://mechanicalcat.net/pyblagg.html 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 Python411 indexes "podcasts ... to help people learn Python ..." Updates appear more-than-weekly: http://www.awaretek.com/python/index.html Steve Bethard, Tim Lesher, and Tony Meyer continue the marvelous tradition early borne by Andrew Kuchling, Michael Hudson and Brett Cannon 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/ 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/python/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/donate.html Kurt B. Kaiser publishes a weekly report on faults and patches. http://www.google.com/groups?as_usubject=weekly%20python%20patch 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://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://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0042/ The online Python Journal is posted at pythonjournal.cognizor.com. 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