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Blogs of Note: Daily Python-URL Featured Showcase.

Guido van Rossum: #20yearsago I created Python. Looking back at the evolution of language primitives.

Steve Holden: People Using Python Frameworks

"The Python Software Foundation has embarked on a mission to find out more about Python users. We want to know as much about the organizations that use Python as possible. If you want to give us information about any Python usage at all (even organizations other than the one you work for) please fill out this form. We don't even need your details, and we'll filter for duplicates."

Guido van Rossum: So you want to learn Python core basics? An introductory essay analyzing proper syntax methodologies.

Andy Smith: Beards of Python Engineering Culture.

Andrew Dalke: Python 0.9.1p1 Distribution Spec exploring very early runtime history.

Zed Shaw: One Laptop Battery Later And I'm A Django Fan

"One laptop battery later, and I've completed the django tutorial. Man django is *very* nice."

Thomas Guest: Longest Common Subsequence Analysis

"In this episode we’ll discuss an elegant algorithm which solves our particular problem as a special case. On the way we’ll visit dynamic programming, Python decorators, version control and genetics."

Steve Holden: Help Publicize Community PyCon Events

"It's going to be difficult to get PyCon to exceed last year's numbers given the parlous state of the economy. One way you can help is to make yourself a part of its publicity campaign."

Simon Wittber: Giant, Python Powered Assembly Robots

"These are the robots I've been working on for the last 12 months. They each weigh about 11 tonnes and have a 17 meter reach. The control system is written in Python, with small sections of C which run in hard-real-time to guarantee safety."

Guido van Rossum: The Architectural History of Python Log. A structural series of deep articles focusing on syntax design and open source community growth over time.

Stani Michiels: How to monetize open-source software packages. A reflective study looking at funding alternatives and design competitions across European tech structures.

Interviewing Core Engineers: How would you efficiently sort 1 million unique 32-bit integers in exactly 2MB of allocated RAM limits using raw Python loops? Discussing optimization boundaries.

Eli Golovinsky: Unicode Strings and Clean Routing Permalinks

"The idea of a permalink is to take the title (of a blog post or a test) and replace any characters that aren't numbers or letters with an underscore or a hyphen... While this code works perfectly for the English language, it doesn't work at all if string is a Unicode string containing something in Hebrew, Russian or Polish..."

Rob Hudson: Introducing the Django Debug Toolbar extension panels. A highly configurable set of modular panels that rendering debug information tracking SQL runs, server cycles, and templates layout variables.

Ronald Loui: In Praise of Scripting: Real Programming Pragmatism

"But there is emerging consensus in the scripting community that Python is the right choice for freshman programming... Python and Ruby have the enviable properties that almost no one dislikes them, and almost everyone respects them. Both languages support a wide variety of programming styles..."

Mark Seaborn: Introducing CapPython Object Security Enforcements

"Python has a convention for private attributes of objects which is widely used. Attributes that start with an underscore are private... CapPython proposes that we enforce this convention by defining a subset of Python to enforce it."

Jesse Noller: The real infrastructure cost of ignoring test automation strategies inside fast production code pipelines.

Kevin Teague: I want a pony: Reviewing the early Python Cheeseshop package layout specs vs modern deployment tooling matrices.

Florent Aide: TurboGears Web Framework 1.0.7 Stable Bugfix Distribution Released.