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Python-URL! - weekly Python news and links (Jun 24)
QOTW: "[I]mmutability and flexible control flow are fundamentally at odds in language design." - Manuel Chakravarty http://algorithm.com.au/blog/files/immutability-blocks-la... How to alter a dictionary while iterating over it: http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/t/2a6188a... Mark Dickinson tells about the recent Python Language Summit: http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2011-June/111... Efficiently inserting items into an already sorted list: http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/t/25918d6... Looking for something similar to 'break' statement at module level: http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/t/5eeba97... Different ways to use a dictionary as a counter: http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/t/4a1b66f... Embedding Python code in a shell script: http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/t/a83ba09... Unique elements in a list: is it better to use a set, or a list? http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/t/1b4eb50... Python is not Lisp: implementing 'car' and 'cdr': http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/t/a6fd959... This might win an Obfuscated Python Contest: http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/t/39e13f4... ======================================================================== 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 Just beginning with Python? This page is a great place to start: http://wiki.python.org/moin/BeginnersGuide/Programmers Planet Python: you want to visit there: http://planet.python.org But don't confuse it with Planet SciPy: http://planet.scipy.org And don't confuse *that* with SciPyTip, a high-quality daily (!) tip for the numerically-inclined: http://twitter.com/SciPyTip Python Insider is the official blog of the Python core development team: http://pyfound.blogspot.com/2011/03/python-dev-launches-p... 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/donations/ Keep up with the PSF at "Python Software Foundation News": http://pyfound.blogspot.com The Python Papers aims to publish "the efforts of Python enthusiasts": http://pythonpapers.org/ Doug Hellman's "Module of the week" is essential reading: http://www.doughellmann.com/PyMOTW/ comp.lang.python.announce announces new Python software. Be sure to scan this newsgroup weekly. http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.python.announce/... Python411 indexes "podcasts ... to help people learn Python ..." Updates appear more-than-weekly: http://www.awaretek.com/python/index.html The Python Package Index catalogues packages. http://www.python.org/pypi/ Much of Python's real work takes place on Special-Interest Group mailing lists http://www.python.org/sigs/ 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 Summary of Python Tracker Issues is an automatically generated report summarizing new bugs, closed ones, and patch submissions. http://search.gmane.org/?author=status%40bugs.python.org&... nullege is an interesting search Web application, with the intelligence to distinguish between Python code and comments. It provides what appear to be relevant results, and demands neither Java nor CSS be enabled: http://www.nullege.com Although unmaintained since 2002, the Cetus collection of Python hyperlinks retains a few gems. http://www.cetus-links.org/oo_python.html The Cookbook is a collaborative effort to capture useful and interesting recipes: http://code.activestate.com/recipes/langs/python/ Many Python conferences around the world are in preparation. Watch this space for links to them. Among several Python-oriented RSS/RDF feeds available, see: http://www.python.org/channews.rdf 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://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0042/ del.icio.us presents an intriguing approach to reference commentary. 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