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QOTW: "Other than the parts about 'SADISTS and PERVERTS', what portion
was on topic?" - Peter Hansen, commenting a spam posting
    http://groups.google.com/groups?frame=left&th=5028573...

"Python makes me very lazy.  Writing a report in LaTeX today, it was
actually easier for me to make up a syntax for tagging math symbols (put
into comments in the LaTeX source), and extract those and build a List Of
Symbols with a python preprocessor before texification, rather than find
(and figure out how to use) the correct LaTeX package for that." - Caleb
Hattingh
    http://groups.google.com/groups?frame=left&th=175f4d8...


    The Boo thread inspires Doug Holton to muse about the future
    possibilites of the project, while 'Neuruss' relays news about
    the status of the highly anticipated Starkiller project.
        http://groups.google.com/groups?threadm=V8SdnRfq9bLtQvfcR...
        http://groups.google.com/groups?threadm=278de0e.041011183...
    
    Daniel Bickett learns how to use the Windows XP balloon tips from
    Python. Once again, ctypes is just the ticket.
        http://groups.google.com/groups?threadm=mailman.4712.1097...
        http://starship.python.net/crew/theller/ctypes/
    
    Blow your technical mind *and* stamp your passport:  see Lithuania in
    autumn, on the occasion of the next PyPy sprint.
        http://groups.google.com/groups?th=4ce1fbd505bad21f

    Mike Mussman needs to pass a live socket to another process. Apart
    from the well-known posix fork()-based solution, we learn that there
    is actually a relatively clean way to do it in Windows as well.
        http://groups.google.com/groups?threadm=5d00592f.04101109...
    
    Irmen de Jong announces a new release of the Snakelets web programming
    framework, and gets in an interesting discussion about implementing the
    new, official WSGI API for it and the benefits it would provide.
        http://groups.google.com/groups?threadm=416ae4b9%240%2478...
        http://groups.google.com/groups?threadm=mailman.4769.1097...
    
    Denis Wendum learns that the reverse version of the comparison
    operator __lt__ is __gt__, not __rlt__, but the discussion quickly
    turns towards the differences in attribute access between classic and
    new style classes.
        http://groups.google.com/groups?threadm=416BD8E7.9885FEBD...
    
    Nick needs to know how to change the desktop background in Windows
        http://groups.google.com/groups?threadm=416c8404%241_3%40...
    
    Mabororshi wonders about rewriting the Linux kernel in python. Posters
    question the virtues of such an endeavour, especially that of a pure
    python approach, but writing an OS kernel in Python not only doesn't
    seem so far-fetched - it's been done, as can be seen from the thread.
        http://groups.google.com/groups?threadm=10mrba51r9dql4f%4...
    
    IPython, besides changing the license to BSD, will be going through a
    major cleanup in the immediate future. Fernando Perez, the author of
    the software, wouldn't mind code contributions.
        http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=mailman.4814.1097652...
    
    John finds out that at this time, CORBA is probably the optimal way to
    get COM-like functionality for Python in Linux.
        http://groups.google.com/groups?threadm=ba129ce7.04101118...
    
    Python 2.4, beta 1 is out. Especially notable with this release is the
    inclusion of the new "subprocess" module.
        http://www.python.org/2.4/
        http://www.python.org/peps/pep-0324.html
    

========================================================================
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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