Aahz: >If you were going to name three or five essential recipes from the >Python Cookbook suitable for beginners, what would you pick? >Yes, this is for _Python for Dummies_, so idioms that aren't in the >Cookbook are also fine.
Constants Static methods / Class methods Bunch TaskQueue (Queue for easy and safe multithreading) A decorator for type checking of function arguments, and/or for require/ensure, and/or for similar features of other languages that people find missing in Python. Properties and in particular lazy properties. Why and how to avoid getters/setters. Dynamically import a module (name known at runtime, may or may not be present). Unittest/doctest. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
