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QOTW:  "As revealed by PSU Research Paper 'UU788', the real reason is a side
effect of the nanovirus encroaching into non-whitespace, as first proposed
by 'UU355' and then earlier proven (twice, as it turned out) by 'UU6 9'.
The only defence is t*^$Z:%Z* NO CARRIER" - Richie Hindle. He appears to have
survived the... unfortunate incident.

"What do I have to say to get into the QOTW?" - Dan Python, who finally
realized that Dan Perl is not going to cut it as a name.


    Johannes Eble is looking for software te help replace Matlab with
    Python.  Respondents recommend the combination of SciPy and IPython.
        http://groups.google.com/groups?threadm=uhu1m0t4euvekl61i...
    
    Irmen de Jong is looking for a way to make an object temporarily
    read-only. Alex Martelli comes up with a clever,
    obvious-when-you-have-seen-it approach of changing the class of
    the live object.
        http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=1gl6bdp.rudxqrkoby1z...
    
    Global interpreter lock of CPython and multi-CPU scalability are
    a recurrent theme in comp.lang.python. The current concern involves
    the upcoming availability and popularity of multicore CPUs.
        http://groups.google.com/groups?threadm=6db3f637.04100420...
    
    PySQLite, the python interface to the SQLite embedded relational
    database, hits 1.0.
        http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=mailman.4368.1097005...
   
    Carlos Ribeiro provides Erik Johnson a simple explanation of the
    mechanics behind class and function definitions - a simple matter
    that confuses many, especially people who think Python has such
    things as 'declarations'.
        http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=mailman.4460.1097104...
    
    Alex Martelli shows how we should use the plain objects returned by
    object() as sentinels.
        http://groups.google.com/groups?threadm=1glatop.p9hsopf3b...
    
    Robin Becker needs to determine whether an object is a sequence.
        http://groups.google.com/groups?threadm=41650CAE.704%40ch...
    
    Boo 0.4.3, the Python-like language for .NET/Mono CLR, is out.
        http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=8PGdnS7wN_uwg_rcRVn-...
	

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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.

    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...

    Brett Cannon continues the marvelous tradition established by 
    Andrew Kuchling and Michael Hudson 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/

    The Python Business Forum "further[s] the interests of companies
    that base their business on ... Python."
	http://www.python-in-business.org

    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%...
       
    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&...
    The old Python "To-Do List" now lives principally in a
    SourceForge reincarnation.
        http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?atid=355470&group_id=...
        http://python.sourceforge.net/peps/pep-0042.html
     
    The online Python Journal is posted at pythonjournal.cognizor.com.
    editor@pythonjournal.com and editor@pythonjournal.cognizor.com
    welcome submission of material that helps people's understanding
    of Python use, and offer Web presentation of your work.

    *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...
        http://groups.google.com/groups?meta=site%3Dgroups%26grou...

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