Learning Python

Newsgroups, Discussion Groups, and Email Help

Python owes a great deal of its growth to a worldwide community of users who exchange information about Python via the Internet. Most day-to-day exchanges about Python occur in various electronic forums, which each have specific aims and scopes.

comp.lang.python/python-list

The main “public space” for discussions of Python is the comp.lang.python Usenet newsgroup, which is bidirectionally gatewayed as the mailing list [e-mail] (although there are plans to move it to [e-mail]). If you don’t have access to a Usenet newsfeed already, you can read comp.lang.python using the Dejanews service (http://www.dejanews.com), or read the equivalent python-list mailing list via the eGroups service (http://www.egroups.com/list/python-list/). This mailing list/newsgroup is the appropriate forum to ask questions, discuss specific Python problems, post announcements of Python jobs, etc.

comp.lang.python.announce/python-list-announce

Recently, a new newsgroup was created, with the aim of being a low-traffic list just for significant announcements of Python-related news. The comp.lang.python.announce newsgroup (also gatewayed as [e-mail] ) is a moderated forum, so only postings deemed appropriate are allowed through.

[e-mail]

One of the characteristics of the main Usenet newsgroup/mailing list is that it’s automatically broadcast to tens of thousands of readers around the world. While this allows for ...