[Drafted by Gabriel Genellina.] QOTW: "'Reminds me of the catch-phrase from the first Pirates of the Caribbean movie: 'It's more of a guideline than a rule.'" - Tim Roberts, 2011-05-27, on the "mutator-methods-return-None"
Announcing two maintenance releases (including security fixes): 2.5.6 and 2.6.7 and two pre-final ones: 2.7.2rc1 and 3.1.4rc1: http://www.python.org/news/ How compatible are 2.x vs. 3.x? and what does "compatible" mean exactly? Is it something like "American English" vs. "British English"? http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/t/1b0e4fb6785449ae/ Raymond Hettinger on how to use super() correctly: http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/t/1b78f365bccd1275/ http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/t/c87b2cb8bda10705/ Make sure you read these anecdotes from Guido's recent life with Python: http://neopythonic.blogspot.com/2011/06/depth-and-breadth-of-python.html Class decorators, multiple inheritance, and super(): http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/t/b5839e91ac06f9cf/ The memoize pattern revisited: http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/t/ca38638b080ba973/ A long thread: NaN, IEEE-754 and its roots, the importance of such a standard, and why Python should follow it or not: http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/t/73161a5e9c561db8/ How to split a generator function in logical parts (and still have a generator): http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/t/73ca39d4a280f270/ How do alternative implementations handle concurrency without a GIL: http://code.activestate.com/lists/python-list/601913/ Regular expressions or string methods: when to use them: http://code.activestate.com/lists/python-list/602284/ A horrible function as an example how *not* to write code: http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/t/c7753efc88399b5f/ http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/t/eda74e73fd7f53e7/ Using Python (and free software in general) in school notebooks: http://code.activestate.com/lists/python-list/602126/ A code review: commenting on some posted script style and behavior: http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/t/4f379b9c09edab73/ The scope of function parameters; names and unnamed objects: http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/t/daac8ef71631dbd0/ ======================================================================== 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 Just beginning with Python? 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