The first alpha release of dramatis hit the streets today. dramatis is a library available in Python and Ruby used to write concurrent programs based on the actor model of concurrency.
The dramatis web site is http://dramatis.mischance.net The release is available as a python distutils package at http://pypi.python.org/pypi/dramatis. It supports both Ruby and Python, and comes with API docs, several examples, and a tutorial. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list