Proposal: Weekly FAQ pointer (was Re: Newbie: Is there a faq for this newsgroup?)

[Steve Holden]

Why not just keep http://python.faqts.com/
up to date and post that once a week?

regards
 Steve

Aahz Maruch wrote:
> 
> In article <38cb9f9a$0$1338 at motown.iinet.net.au>,
> Aesop <me at my.own.computer> wrote:
> >
> >        Been programming in python for, well about 2 days now. Have a whack
> >of dumb questions that are probably guaranteed to see me flamed to death. Is
> >there a FAQ anywhere? oe better still anyone got any good links to tutorial
> >type sites for people who have not touched a computer language in about six
> >or so years?
> 
> We've been getting a lot of questions like this lately, despite the
> existence of python.org.  I think that a >>very short<< weekly FAQ with
> pointers to the five or six most common URLs would be pretty handy.  I'm
> willing to write it up if someone else takes the responsibility for
> posting it; I'm just not sure whether I should talk to Fred, Barry, or
> someone else.  Suggestions?
> 
> (Yes, I'm more than aware of the weekly Python-URL!, but that's not
> labelled "FAQ" and it's a lot longer than someone who wants a quick
> answer to "Where's the FAQ?" will read.)
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