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The Youngest "Learning Python" Fan -- How old do you have to be to appreciate O'Reilly's books? Not very. Tim Pietzcker shows us how much his 17-month-old son likes Learning Python, and other readers chime in with similar experiences. The appeal of O'Reilly animals proves to be cross-generational in our latest Letters.

Cameron Laird Wins Frank Willison Award -- At OSCON 2004, the Python community paid tribute to one of its own by bestowing the Frank Willison Award for Contributions to the Python Community on Cameron Laird, vice president of Phaseit. Guido van Rossum and Tim O'Reilly speak to the contributions acknowledged by the award.

Open Source Content Management with Plone -- When you're tired of being asked to make tiny changes to your web sites--changes that users could easily make themselves--it's time to consider a content management system (CMS). If you're a Python or Zope fan, Brad Bollenbach suggests that you try Plone, a powerful and easy-to-use CMS.

Python Quick Reference -- If you program in Python, this collection of quick refs will save you time and energy. Included here are common file operations, dictionary literals and operations, tuple literals and operations, and object methods. For exhaustive coverage of these commands, see the books from which they were plucked: Python in a Nutshell and Learning Python, 2nd Edition.

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Guido van Rossum Speaks -- Guido van Rossum, creator of the Python programming language, recently announced that he'll be leaving PythonLabs to work for a California startup. In this interview, Guido talks about the move, recent developments, and Python in general.

Tightening Python's Grip in Enterprise IT -- In this OE Trends interview, Alex Martelli talks about how Python scripting can extend the integration capabilities of Win32, ASP.NET, Java, and C/C++. Alex is the author of Python Cookbook and Python in a Nutshell.

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