QOTW: "Regarding a Java programmer moving to Python, a lot of the mindset
change is about the abundant use of built in data types of Python. So a Java
programmer, when confronted with a problem, should think 'how can I solve
this using lists, dicts and tuples?' (and perhaps also my new favourite,
sets). Class-based solution should be chosen only after seeing that the
problem can't be trivially solved with built-in types." - Ville Vainio
"The remainder of the unittest docs are somewhat obtuse and
uninspiring." - Raymond Hettinger
How to generate HTML page thumbnails: John J Lee enumerates
several alternatives, using MSIE, Firefox, Konqueror and others.
http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/browse_thread/thread/2185ad4e31c9320b/
Concatenating strings may be painfully slow in some
circumstances if not done the right way:
http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/browse_thread/thread/3999b83838787fa1/
Initializing class members only when needed, using a
LazyClassAttribute decorator:
http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/browse_thread/thread/18f8b54cb15f922f/
Postpone attribute creation: similar to thread above,
but more from a design perspective:
http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/browse_thread/thread/393d2ac620716d90/
Simple Programs: the search for small, complete,
useful examples of Python code still continues:
http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/browse_thread/thread/ec8184ca4ed7e3e6/
See the resulting programs at
http://wiki.python.org/moin/SimplePrograms
A simple question: "How many list items comply with
this condition?", and many answers:
http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/browse_thread/thread/6d488fb624fbb6a7/
Continuing from last week: "only one way to do it", now discussing
tail call optimization, generic programming, Scheme and macros...
http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/browse_thread/thread/e587471d08dbfcbb/
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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.
The Python Papers aims to publish "the efforts of Python enthusiats".
http://pythonpapers.org/
Readers have recommended the "Planet" sites:
http://planetpython.org
http://planet.python.org
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 continues the marvelous tradition early borne by
Andrew Kuchling, Michael Hudson, Brett Cannon, Tony Meyer, and Tim
Lesher 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/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
Many Python conferences around the world are in preparation.
Watch this space for links to them.
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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welcome submission of material that helps people's understanding
of Python use, and offer Web presentation of your work.
del.icio.us presents an intriguing approach to reference commentary.
It already aggregates quite a bit of Python intelligence.
http://del.icio.us/tag/python
*Py: the Journal of the Python Language*
http://www.pyzine.com
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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