The third of four _<I>Programming Python_</I>s, which expanded 
its applications materials, and covered Python 2.5_&mdash;arguably 
one of the best Pythons, and two years before 3.X cropped up.

Parts of this book were written during an all-night hotel 
vigil in an Embassy Suites in downtown Chicago, before 
teaching a class the next day.  It was probably time to 
start thinking about scaling back (and/or human cloning).