Kee Nethery wrote: > I just noticed the tag line "a place for Python". Looked it up online > (http://pyfora.org/) and it will be interesting to see if it can fill > the void that I experience (no centralized place to post and view user > submitted sample code) in the existing Python community.
There already is a well-known site for exchanging code snippets: The ActiveState Cookbook for Python http://code.activestate.com/recipes/langs/python/ > As for user community fragmentation, I would guess that someone would be > less likely to create such a site if the user community needs were being > met by the official sites. There is a place for the existing old school > interaction forums (the IRC channel, the Usenet groups and mailing > lists), but there is also a place for archived user submitted comments. > > My personal preference would be a link in each sub-paragraph in the > official documentation to a wiki page devoted to that specific aspect of > the Python language. A place were users could augment the documentation > by providing sample code and by expanding out the documentation for > those of us who don't live and breath Python in our sleep. Real Python > coders would not click on the user wiki links and all of us newbies > could communicate with each other. But until a place like that exists, > perhaps Pyfora will get us part way there. I'm sure something like that could be added to the official documentation. Please file a feature request for on the Python tracker. We could have a dedicated place on the python.org wiki to host such snippets and then use sub-pages for the various topics. -- Marc-Andre Lemburg eGenix.com Professional Python Services directly from the Source (#1, Nov 03 2009) >>> Python/Zope Consulting and Support ... http://www.egenix.com/ >>> mxODBC.Zope.Database.Adapter ... http://zope.egenix.com/ >>> mxODBC, mxDateTime, mxTextTools ... http://python.egenix.com/ ________________________________________________________________________ ::: Try our new mxODBC.Connect Python Database Interface for free ! :::: eGenix.com Software, Skills and Services GmbH Pastor-Loeh-Str.48 D-40764 Langenfeld, Germany. CEO Dipl.-Math. Marc-Andre Lemburg Registered at Amtsgericht Duesseldorf: HRB 46611 http://www.egenix.com/company/contact/ -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list