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RIP Alex Chilton

Parsing xml in python: ElementTree

Good intro to python's ElementTree library: http://blog.doughellmann.com/2010/03/pymotw-parsing-xml-documents-with.html

Want to learn python, try Google

2 day Google developer class about python, cut up into 7 lecture videos: http://code.google.com/edu/languages/google-python-class/ Here's the first one

Containers & Codecs explained

This article on the Rambla blog explains the basics.

Django Advent for v 1.2

The django advent series is a great idea for any open source project. It is a series of in depth articles describing new features in the upcoming 1.2 version of django. By the way, 1.2 contains some great new features, among them: Multiple db support and improvements to raw sql queries Object permissions Model validation , which should permit for shared validation between web-apps and web-services Template improvements, like the smart "if" tag Very interesting article also on scaling django .