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QOTW:  "There is a certain charm to seeing someone happily advocate a
triangular wheel because it has one less bump per revolution than a
square wheel does."  -- Chuck Swiger

"It took me years to realise how deep and important the divide is between
wanting an SDK and wanting to know the underlying protocol."  -- Tim Bray


Discussion:
    Bengt Richter works out (with a few revisions, and variants from
    other posters) how to make a switch-case work-alike by abusing
    exceptions.
        <http://groups.google.com/groups?th=535044209d026bb#link9>

    Carl Banks demonstrates an introspective technique for "declaring"
    local variables.
        <http://groups.google.com/groups?th=b2a660906391cc6c#link5>

    A draft essay explaining descriptors, by Raymond Hettinger.
        <http://users.rcn.com/python/download/Descriptor.htm>

Announcements:
    Python 2.2.3: A bug fix release for the Python 2.2 code line.
        <http://www.python.org/2.2.3/>

    Voting for the 2003 Active Awards for open-source programmers
    starts June 3.
        <http://www.activestate.com/Corporate/ActiveAwards/>

    EmPy 3.0: a system for embedding Python expressions and statements
    in template text.
        <http://www.alcyone.com/pyos/empy/>

    gdmodule 0.41: A Python wrapper for the GD graphics module.
        <http://newcenturycomputers.net/projects/gdmodule.html>

    McMillan Installer 5b5_3: A utility for distributing Python
    applications; this is a bug fix release.
        <http://www.mcmillan-inc.com/installer_dnld.html>

    managesieve 0.2: A MANGAGESIEVE client library for remotely
    managing Sieve scripts, including an interactive 'sieveshell'.
        <http://www.crazy-compilers.com/py-lib/managesieve.html>

    msnp.py 0.3: A pure-Python implementation of the MSN instant
    messaging protocol.
        <http://msnp.sf.net/>

    PyGDChart Alpha 2: A Python interface to the GDChart graphing
    library.
        <http://www.nullcube.com/software/pygdchart2.html>

    PyOSG 0.4.0: Python bindings for the OpenSceneGraph real-time
    visualisation library.
        <http://sourceforge.net/projects/pyosg>

    yawPyCrypto 0.02: A more full-featured PyCrypto wrapper.
        <http://ph0enix.homelinux.org/~heiko>


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Everything 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
    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 newly-revitalized newsgroup at least weekly.
        http://groups.google.com/groups?oi=djq&as_ugroup=comp.lang.python.announce

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

    The Python Software Foundation has replaced the Python Consortium
    as an independent nexus of activity
        http://www.python.org/psf/

    Cetus does much of the same
        http://www.cetus-links.org/oo_python.html

    Python FAQTS
        http://python.faqts.com/

    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.
    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.lang.python&num=100
        http://groups.google.com/groups?meta=site%3Dgroups%26group%3Dcomp.lang.python.*

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