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Kentucky pet store worker escapes death by python The photo shows a Reticulated Python. They get big, but a 20-foot specimen would be rare. The story has some contradictory elements and his daughter says that it didn't happen the way that the police and press are saying.

Hi all, I don't know jack about programming, with the exception of QBasic which I've almost entirely forgotten. What I'd like to do is write a really tiny, simple, single-window program to calculate delay times. It would have a box to enter a number for BPM (say, .1 to 1000*), another box to...

Hi all, can someone of you good people recommend a podcast concerning Python? One aimed at newbies would be best, but others would also be cool.

In Python, I have contructed a list where members of the list are objects. Now I want to remove a single object from this list. I can't get a reference to that object. Here is an example: class Student(object): # Student object .......name = '' .......def __init__(self, name): #...

When I read some binary data with pySerial, I get an str that contains elements that, when printed, look like this: '\xc0' That itself is a str. How do I turn it back into a number so I can do math on it? o int( '\xc0' ) chokes o The binascii library is useless as it can't handle this in...

I have Ubuntu on my computer and would like to learn simple programming. Python seems an obvious choice. It is already to use, and I have done the Print "hello" thing. I have looked at a few online tutorials but seem to get stuck after a fairly short time. Could anyone recommend a good book or...

http://www.yenra.com/non-lethal-projectile-launcher/ Looks like a paintball gun to me.

The story is here: http://msnbc.msn.com/Default.aspx?id=3845750&p1=0 The reticulated python has never been known to exceed 32 to 33 feet in length so if this measurement is correct this would be a extraordinary find............... I placed this in this section because there is a lot of...