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<p class="rubric">About Python Module of the Week</p>
<p>PyMOTW is a series of blog posts written by <a class="reference external" href="http://www.doughellmann.com/">Doug Hellmann</a>. It was started as a way to build
the habit of writing something on a regular basis. The focus of the
series is building a set of example code for the modules in the
<a class="reference external" href="http://www.python.org/">Python</a> standard library.</p>
<p>Complete documentation for the standard library can be found on the
Python web site at <a class="reference external" href="http://docs.python.org/library/contents.html">http://docs.python.org/library/contents.html</a>.</p>
<p class="rubric">Tools</p>
<p>The source text for PyMOTW is <a class="reference external" href="http://docutils.sourceforge.net/">reStructuredText</a> and the HTML and PDF output are
created using <a class="reference external" href="http://sphinx.pocoo.org/">Sphinx</a>.</p>
<p class="rubric">Subscribe</p>
<p>As new articles are written, they are posted to <a class="reference external" href="http://blog.doughellmann.com/">my blog</a>. Updates are available by <a class="reference external" href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/PyMOTW">RSS</a> and <a class="reference external" href="http://www.feedburner.com/fb/a/emailverifySubmit?feedId=806224&amp;loc=en_US">email</a>. See
the project home page for details
(<a class="reference external" href="http://www.doughellmann.com/PyMOTW/">http://www.doughellmann.com/PyMOTW/</a>).</p>
<p class="rubric">Translations and Other Versions</p>
<p>Junjie Cai and Yan Sheng have started a google code project called
PyMOTWCN (<a class="reference external" href="http://code.google.com/p/pymotwcn/">http://code.google.com/p/pymotwcn/</a>) and posted the completed
translations at <a class="reference external" href="http://www.vbarter.cn/pymotw/">http://www.vbarter.cn/pymotw/</a>.</p>
<p>Ralf Schönian is translating PyMOTW into German, following an
alphabetical order. The results are available on his web site,
<a class="reference external" href="http://schoenian-online.de/pymotw.html">http://schoenian-online.de/pymotw.html</a>. Ralf is an active member of
the <a class="reference external" href="http://wiki.python.de/User_Group_K%C3%B6ln?action=show&redirect=pyCologne">pyCologne</a>
user group in Germany and author of pyVoc, the open source
English/German vocabulary trainer (<a class="reference external" href="http://code.google.com/p/pyvoc/">http://code.google.com/p/pyvoc/</a>).</p>
<p>Roberto Pauletto is working on an Italian translation at
<a class="reference external" href="http://robyp.x10hosting.com/">http://robyp.x10hosting.com/</a>. Roberto creates Windows applications
with C# by day, and tinkers with Linux and Python at home. He has
recently moved to Python from Perl for all of his
system-administration scripting.</p>
<p><a class="reference external" href="http://denklab.org/">Ernesto Rico Schmidt</a> provides a Spanish
translation that follows the English version posts. Ernesto is in
Bolivia, and is translating these examples as a way to contribute to
the members of the <a class="reference external" href="http://www.softwarelibre.org.bo/">Bolivian Free Software</a> community who use Python. The
full list of articles available in Spanish can be found at
<a class="reference external" href="http://denklab.org/articles/category/pymotw/">http://denklab.org/articles/category/pymotw/</a>, and there is an <a class="reference external" href="http://denklab.org/feeds/articles/category/pymotw/">RSS
feed</a>.</p>
<p><a class="reference external" href="http://d.hatena.ne.jp/t2y-1979/">Tetsuya Morimoto</a> is creating a
Japanese translation. Tetsuya has used Python for 1.5 years. He has as
experience at a Linux Distributor using Python with yum, anaconda, and
rpm-tools while building RPM packages. Now, he uses it to make useful
tools for himself, and is interested in application frameworks such as
Django, mercurial and wxPython. Tetsuya is a member of <a class="reference external" href="http://www.python.jp/Zope/">Python Japan
User’s Group</a> and <a class="reference external" href="http://groups.google.co.jp/group/python-code-reading">Python Code Reading</a>. The home
page for his translation is
<a class="reference external" href="http://d.hatena.ne.jp/t2y-1979/20090525/1243227350">http://d.hatena.ne.jp/t2y-1979/20090525/1243227350</a>.</p>
<p>Gerard Flanagan is working on a “Python compendium” called <a class="reference external" href="http://www.thehazeltree.org/">The Hazel
Tree</a>. He is converting a collection
of old and new of Python-related reference material into
reStructuredText and then building a single searchable repository from
the results. I am very pleased to have PyMOTW included with works
from authors like Mark Pilgrim, Fredrik Lundh, Andrew Kuchling, and a
growing list of others.</p>
<p class="rubric">Other Contributors</p>
<p>Thank you to John Benediktsson for the original HTML-to-reST
conversion.</p>
<p class="rubric">Copyright</p>
<p>All of the prose from the Python Module of the Week is licensed under
a <a class="reference external" href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/us/">Creative Commons Attribution, Non-commercial, Share-alike 3.0</a> license. You
are free to share and create derivative works from it. If you post
the material online, you must give attribution and link to the PyMOTW
home page (<a class="reference external" href="http://www.doughellmann.com/PyMOTW/">http://www.doughellmann.com/PyMOTW/</a>). You may not use this
work for commercial purposes. If you alter, transform, or build upon
this work, you may distribute the resulting work only under the same
or similar license to this one.</p>
<p>The source code included here is copyright Doug Hellmann and licensed
under the BSD license.</p>
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