QOTW: "It was intended to be understood, not copied." - Dave Angel comments on a characteristic of didactic examples http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/msg/61e2d60d08f1c630 Altering the default character encoding (sys.setdefaultencoding) is never a good idea: ^://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/t/ecc3671082f897b4/ How come id() returns the same thing for different objects? ^://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/t/bc09c37fc40059ac/ Some iterators share state, while others don't - why? ^://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/t/d463230d1752aa7f/ sum(list_of_strings) is explicitely forbidden - why? ^://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/t/f3c0fba5305e11e2/ Neither __getattribute__ nor metaclasses can be used to implement __special__ methods: ^://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/t/f0a5aeb35f946f80/ How to compute a running median efficiently: ^://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/t/d0e011c87174c2d0/ Several details on how str.split() works are not adequately documented: ^://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/t/26dff8570a79067d/ How to implement a set that uses a custom function to determine element membership (not the element's __eq__): ^://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/t/7eb4d6db8556f870/ Generators explained as simply as possible: ^://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/t/70a954d0e034b84c/ Proposal to add slice notation [start:stop:step] to iterators/generators: ^://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/t/440076d71746f8cf/ An encoding problem involves an XML document, HTTP headers, and Google servers: ^://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/t/885c62699b434d25/ The `while True:` idiom makes the longest thread so far: ^://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/t/46a2082b2e2c991c/ "Homework" questions: what should be our reaction? ^://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/t/f7a8c5107e9d27bf/ Why is python so sad :( ? ^://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/t/60c39c1ab1b39ef9/ Guido's proposes to freeze language grammar and semantics for several years: ^://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.python.ideas/6282 ======================================================================== Everything Python-related you want is probably one or two clicks away in these pages:
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