Python-URL! - weekly Python news and links (Mar 31)

Sat Mar 31 11:38:40 EDT 2012

I pine for the fjords.
And it's time to bring "Python-URL!" to a close. "Python-URL!", which
Jean-Claude Wippler and I appear to have launched in 1998, has reached
the end of its utility. We still have many loyal and enthusiastic
readers--one subscription request arrived within the last day, in
fact--and certainly much writing turns up every week that *deserves*
the spotlight "Python-URL!" has shone in the past.
However, the Python world has changed a great deal over the last
fourteen years. There are many, MANY other ways for those with an
interest in Python to nourish themselves, and Python itself has grown
and "normalized" so much that it no longer fits particularly well in
the "Python-URL!" format. Enjoy "Mouse vs. Python" <URL:
http://www.blog.pythonlibrary.org/ >, the Python areas of DZone,
Reddit, developerWorks, stackoverflow, and so on.
For your reference, I append below the most-recent-but-not-
particularly-
current version of "Python-URL!"'s coda of related readings.
That is all.
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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-python-insider
-blog.html
 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/topics
 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&group=gmane.c
omp.python.devel&sort=date
 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&ShowStatus=all
 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://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0042/
 del.icio.us presents an intriguing approach to reference
commentary.
 It already aggregates quite a bit of Python intelligence.
 http://del.icio.us/tag/python
 At least one of the Python magazines is explicitly multilingual:
 http://www.python.org/ar/
 PythonWare complemented the digest you're reading with the
 marvelous daily python url. While it's now ... dormant, it still
 has plenty of interesting reading.
 http://www.pythonware.com/daily
 Python articles regularly appear at IBM DeveloperWorks:
 http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/search/searchResults.jsp?searchSite=
dW&searchScope=dW&encodedQuery=python&rankprofile=8
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