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QOTW:  "[T]he UK TV programme 'University Challenge' of 2nd June has just had
'The Python Programming Language' as the answer to a question in a round about
programming languages [...]"  -- John Ochiltree

"Python is more backward compatible with Windows than Microsoft's stuff."
Kirby Urner, on the practice of system administration


Discussion:
    Alan Kennedy devises a (near) workalike for try/finally which can
    be used freely in a generator function.
        <http://groups.google.com/groups?th=e30c214953b189fc>

    Taral proposes an extension to file.__init__ which makes
    subclassing file easier.
        <http://groups.google.com/groups?th=51e837527a3b3be6>

    Kevin Smith re-opens discussion on a better syntax for "function
    decorators" such as classmethod and staticmethod.
        <http://groups.google.com/groups?th=47b01ffa7cd24a24>

    Oren Tirosh explains why iterating twice over a file will work
    better in 2.3.
        <http://groups.google.com/groups?th=b624169f676ba84b#link7>

Announcements:
    Barry Warsaw has created a mailman hosting site for Python User
    Groups. The hosting is free and all administration is handled
    through the mailman web interface.
        <http://www.python.org/UserGroups.html#usergroups>

    Dave Kuhlman has released training materials for Python
    classes and self-teaching.
        <http://www.rexx.com/~dkuhlman/#training>

    Confluence 0.4.6:  A functional programming language for hardware
    and logic design.  This is the first version to include the new
    Python model generator.
        <http://www.launchbird.com/>

    Design By Contract for Python 1.0 beta 2: A cross between full
    Eiffel-style contracts and the doctest module.
        <http://www.wayforward.net/pycontract/>

    IDLEfork 0.9 beta 1: An official experimental fork of Python's
    Integrated DeveLopment Environment, IDLE.
        <http://sourceforge.net/projects/idlefork/>

    PyProtocols 0.9:  Extends the PEP 246 adapt() function with a new
    "declaration API" that lets you easily define your own interfaces
    and adapters, and declare what adapters should be used to adapt
    what types, objects, or interfaces.
        <http://peak.telecommunity.com/protocol_api/>

    PySQLite 0.4.3: A Python-DB API 2.0 compliant extension module
    that uses the SQLite embedded SQL database.
        <http://pysqlite.sf.net/>

    PythonCAD, seventh development release: The goal of this project
    is to create a fully scriptable drafting program that will match
    and eventually exceed features found in commercial CAD software.
        <http://www.pythoncad.org/>

    python-ldap 2.0.0pre13: An object-oriented API to access LDAP
    directory servers from Python programs.
        <http://python-ldap.sourceforge.net/>

    yawPyCrypto 0.0alpha4: Yet another wrapper for PyCrypto.
        <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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