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QOTW:  "I'll claim without proof that how mixed-type comparisons work
with Python classes is also beyond wizard prediction in all cases: the
implementation of comparison in Python is crushingly complicated."
                                            -- Tim Peters

"Honest to God, if it doesn't have coloured cells all over the place, then
they [the engineers] kind of stare at you like rabbits caught in the
headlights of an oncoming car."         -- Mark Carter


Discussion
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     While syntax coloring sounds nice, Mark VandeWettering shows
     negative issues of syntax coloring in editors.
         <http://groups.google.com/groups?threadm=slrnbh0p28.uj.wettering@keck.vandewettering.net>

     Aahz explains what threading is most often used for and why
     Python usually doesn't have a scalability problem here.
         <http://groups.google.com/groups?threadm=bemhsb$dgn$1@panix3.panix.com>

     Ian Bicking brings up Jason Orendorff's path module, starting a
     discussion about a different Python interface to the filesystem.
         <http://groups.google.com/groups?threadm=mailman.1057651032.22842.python-list@python.org>

     Bengt Richter and Peter Hansen use a helium-balloon metaphor while
     explaining Python's object naming principle.
         <http://groups.google.com/groups?threadm=3F0FD092.7D452008@engcorp.com>
	
     Paul Rubin takes a negative-for-Python - but arguably sound - stance in
     the Python versus PHP web-applications discussion.
         <http://groups.google.com/groups?threadm=7xisqagvjt.fsf@ruckus.brouhaha.com>

     Raymond Hettinger intrigues with the first episode of a series of
     mysterious Python puzzles.
         <http://groups.google.com/groups?threadm=UiOPa.3259$Y92.1224@nwrdny01.gnilink.net>


Announcements
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     Guido is moving to the US West Coast.  His devotion to Python 
     continues.
	 <http://www.python.org/~guido>

     Congratulations to ActiveAwards winners Mark Hammond, Uche Ogbuji,
     Mike Olson, and Martin von Loewis.
         <http://www.ActiveState.com/ActiveAwards>

     PortalTransforms 1.0a1, part of Archetypes, a framework
     for the development of new Content Types in Zope/CMF/Plone.
         <http://www.sourceforge.net/projects/archetypes/>

     wxPyPlot 1.1, an enhanced derivative version of wxPlotCanvas
     to provide simple lightweight plotting in wxPython.
         <http://www.cyberus.ca/~g_will/wxPython/wxpyplot.html>

     Adept, a Declarative, Eval-based Program Tester. It is
     an unit testing tool where you define test cases as tuples.
         <http://csciwww.etsu.edu/phil/samples/adept.htm>

     EmPy 3.0.3, a system for embedding Python expressions and
     statements in template text.
         <http://www.alcyone.com/pyos/empy/>

     PyObjC 1.01, a bridge between Python and Objective-C that allows
     full-featured Cocoa applications to be written in pure Python.
         <http://pyobjc.sourceforge.net/>

     Vb2py 0.1, a toolkit to aid in the conversion of Visual Basic
     projects to Python (using PythonCard).
         <http://vb2py.sourceforge.net>

     YAMI 2.1, a lightweight and portable infrastructure for
     message-oriented network communication.
         <http://www.maciejsobczak.com/prog/yami/>

     PyQwt 3.7, a set of Python bindings for the Qwt C++ class library.
     Qwt extends the Qt framework with widgets for scientific and
     engineering applications.
         <http://pyqwt.sourceforge.net/>

     SpamBayes 1.0a4, a Bayesian anti-spam filter.
         <http://spambayes.org/>

     Spyce 1.3.11, a server-side language that supports simple and efficient
     Python-based dynamic HTML generation.
         <http://spyce.sourceforge.net/>

     ReportLab toolkit 1.18, a dynamic PDF generating solution.
         <http://www.reportlab.com/toolkit/>


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