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2nd April 2008 - Link Blog

Python-by-example. “This guide aims to show examples of use of all Python Library Reference functions, methods and classes”, thus addressing my number one complaint about Python’s standard library documentation.

Posted 2nd April 2008 at 3:42 pm

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