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QOTW:  "I haven't tested this particular example, but I doubt that it
contains more than two or three fundamental errors."
                                            -- Jacob Smullyan

"Great design is not about making no compromises, it's about making
just the RIGHT compromises. That's why it's never easy."  Alex Martelli


Discussion:
    Lulu of the Lotus-Eaters explains the etymological origins of the
    term "list comprehension" in set theory.
        <http://groups.google.com/groups?th=c803c13ddfa9cf19#link4>

    A PEP frenzy begins!  PEP 317 is submitted and rejected.  (It
    proposed eliminating some forms of 'raise' statement.)
        <http://www.python.org/peps/pep-0317.html>

    The frenzy continues!  Kevin Smith revises his PEP 318, which
    proposes a special syntax for "function decorators" such as
    classmethod().
        <http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=20030610082514442-0400%40braeburn.themorgue.org>

    Michel Pelletier submits PEP 319, which proposes "synchronize" and
    "asynchronize" keywords.  Who will the frenzy take next?  Find out
    next week!
        <http://www.python.org/peps/pep-0319.html>

Announcements:
    David Mertz's _Text Processing in Python_ is now in stores!
        <http://gnosis.cx/TPiP/>

    GDmodule 0.42: Connects the popular GD (graphics drawing) library
    by Thomas Bouttel with Python.
        <http://newcenturycomputers.net/projects/gdmodule.html>

    Pygame 1.5.6: This is a release test that needs much testing
    before the big 1.6.
        <http://www.pygame.org/>

    PyKota v1.08: A centralized, full featured, internationalized, and
    easily extensible, print quota and accounting solution for CUPS
    and LPRng.
        <http://www.librelogiciel.com/software/PyKota/>

    PyPov-0.0.1: A relatively simple framework for making povray files.
        <http://arrowtheory.com/software/python/pypov/index.html>


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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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