Archive for June, 2009

If programming languages were poets, which poet would the Python language be?

Obviously, Python would be e. e. cummings: the poet for whom whitespace was most truly significant!

The May issue of Python Magazine is now online! Obviously things fell a bit behind schedule this month, as I am writing this five days into the month of June. But with all of the excitement surrounding the publisher's flagship annual conference last month — php|tek 2009 in Chicago — it was certainly better that the magazine slip late than that delays interfere with an event which drew a couple of hundred people to learn more about quality software development.

What can you look forward to reading? This issue worked out as a balance between community news and several sophisticated technical articles on using Python better. The technical articles include: