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Advocacy discusses reasons to use Python, strategies for winning acceptance, facts and arguments you can use, and cases where you shouldn't try to suggest Python as the solution Bobo and Medusa demonstrates how to install the Bobo WWW object publishing system on either a Win32 or UNIX system Curses Programming with Python an introduction to writing text-mode programs using Python and curses Editor Configuration for Python describes how to configure your favorite editor for writing Python code regex-to-re HOWTO discusses how to convert Python code that uses the regex module to the newer and fancier re module Regular Expression HOWTO an introduction to using regular expressions and the re module to process text Restricted Execution (rexec) HOWTO a guide to Python's restricted execution features, which allow running untrusted code inside a "cage" or "sandbox" where it can't damage the system Socket Programming HOWTO sockets are used nearly everywhere, but are often misunderstood. This is a high-level overview of sockets, that doesn't cover all the fine points (there are a lot of them), but will give you enough background to begin using them decently Sorting Mini-HOWTO a little tutorial showing a half dozen ways to sort a list with the built-in sort() method XML HOWTO discusses XML processing with Python
