Programming newbie coming from Ruby: a few Python questions

[Tim Chase]

> The Ruby crowd says you guys are no where near as friendly as 
> them! I was half expecting a nervous breakdown after writing
> my first post here.

Maybe the Ruby folks have to be friendlier to make up for their 
language of choice... :*)

The python mailing list is your pretty typical technical mailing 
list:  if you do your own homework, state your problem clearly 
(with full error messages, actual data, not writing in 
AOL/133t-speak, etc), and have already tried searching the 
web/docs, then you'll find folks here are quite helpful.  Not 
just helpful, but *fast* in their helpfulness too.

-tkc