QOTW: "*what* the value is is defined by the operations that the object
supports (via its type).
*how* the value is represented inside the object is completely
irrelevant; a Python implementation may use electric charges in small
capacitors, piles of rocks, diapers,or an endless supply of small guys
in odd costumes to encode the value inside an object. Changes to the
value may be carried out by CPU instructions, caterpillars, toddlers
with gasmasks, or an endless supply of small guys in odd costumes. The
only thing that's important is that you can, in your Python program,
access an objects value via its type, and get other objects back when
you do." - Fredrik Lundh
"I have never seen a case where a dictionary didn't improve the design." - Ivan
Van Laningham
PyCon Early bird registration ends, FrOSCon 2006 issues
a "Call for Papers" and OSCON 2006 (Python 14 Conference)
issues a "Call for Proposals":
http://groups.google.se/group/comp.lang.python.announce/browse_frm/thread/3e139769821f7e6e
http://groups.google.se/group/comp.lang.python.announce/browse_frm/thread/a5704ce3f09c4f01
http://groups.google.se/group/comp.lang.python.announce/browse_frm/thread/8f520f85326bf7de
With release 0.6, OSAF's Python based PIM Chandler includes
an "experimentally usable" calendar, with support for
recurring events, time-zones and the ability to share
calendars with others:
http://chandler.osafoundation.org/
Fynali asks "How to remove subset from a file efficiently?".
Follow-ups, as has happened so often before, reduce his runtime
from a few minutes to a few seconds:
http://groups.google.se/group/comp.lang.python/browse_frm/thread/929fcdf0ff9731dc
Tim Peters explains why you shouldn't expect much from atexit + threads:
http://groups.google.se/group/comp.lang.python/browse_frm/thread/fe9e426650764ed9
Scott David Daniels suggests use of decorators to handle unit
tests that are known to fail:
http://groups.google.se/group/comp.lang.python/browse_frm/thread/7ea0762494ef96ff
Robin Becker requests "some smart/fast way to flatten a level one list"
and receives a number of suggestions:
http://groups.google.se/group/comp.lang.python/browse_frm/thread/383aab2c3467eb59
A discussion of the draft for a new Python.org web site leads
to a conclusion of general happiness with the new look:
http://beta.python.org
Brian Blais asks "how do 'real' python programmers work?" and
receives a sample of development processes that Pythonistas use,
focused on what kind of windows people have on their screen, but
also including such important aspects as test driven development:
http://groups.google.se/group/comp.lang.python/browse_frm/thread/82b4f2f90b9def56
Michael Galvin receives a few suggestions on how to get both
text and graphics to a printer from Python:
http://groups.google.se/group/comp.lang.python/browse_frm/thread/bc0742534da994d2
Duncan Booth and others explain how to make a dictionary
aware of its own changes:
http://groups.google.se/group/comp.lang.python/browse_frm/thread/eeca4df10529f7e0
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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.
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
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/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
Cetus collects Python hyperlinks.
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://python.sourceforge.net/peps/pep-0042.html
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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