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Learning Python
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Learning Python

by Mark Lutz, David Ascher
April 1999
Beginner content levelBeginner
384 pages
11h 15m
English
O'Reilly Media, Inc.
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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 (although there are plans to move it to ). 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 ) is a moderated forum, so only postings deemed appropriate are allowed through.

python-help@python.org

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 ...

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