functions. And much too easy to make them when you have too few ;-)"
- Thomas Bartkus
"Argh, the following is valid Python syntax: assert a is not b - XXX
in-progress"
- Armin Rigo (found on Michael Hudson's blog)
A GREAT Python event is taking place right now:
http://wiki.python.org/moin/NeedForSpeed/
Python does not encourage one-liners, but when they work they are often
beautiful and efficient, like this one for counting distinct lines in a
file.
http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/msg/332003a1a24205d3
Starting with Python 2.4 you may have to explicitly mask away the bits
that used to fall off the edge of the world in previous versions.
http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/browse_frm/thread/54b...
Paul Cannon is working on Noodle, a lisp flavour targeting Python bytecode.
http://noodler.blogspot.com/2006/05/release.html
Modules lack a __getattr__ method. However, that is not a limitation in
practice:
http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/msg/68e0c33b843a8a64
Mike Foord and John J. Lee have teamed to improve the "Missing urllib2
Manual" slated to become an official Howto.
http://www.voidspace.org.uk/python/weblog/arch_d7_2006_05_20.shtml#e335
When Python balks at printing non-ascii characters to stdout, the shell
is likely to be the culprit, as Serge Orlov and others work out.
http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/browse_frm/thread/7a5...
Dave Kuhlman has updated his FAQ concerning XML handling with Python.
http://www.rexx.com/~dkuhlman/pyxmlfaq.html
Among the folks Bruce Eckel has interviewed are Guido van Rossum
and Jim Fulton.
http://www.mindviewinc.com/mediacast/interviews/Index.php
Still undecided whether you need "wxPython in Action", the new book
written by Noel Rappin and Robin Dunn (the latter also the main developer
of the wxPython GUI framework)? Get a feel for what to expect from this
excerpt:
http://www.pythonthreads.com/articles/python/incorporating-into-wxpyt...
If you want to access only part of a pickle file cPickle has a
fast-forward that avoids loading stuff you are not interested in.
http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/msg/d55b2e987563422a