New Python User Question about Python.

[Terry Reedy]

"Andrew Dalke" <dalke at dalkescientific.com> wrote in message
news:9m56of$k32$1 at nntp9.atl.mindspring.net...
>
http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=cpzo969i4k.fsf%40cj20424-a.reston
1.va.h
> ome.com&output=gplain
> (Uggh! Any way to get short URLs for groups.google links?)

selm is the unique identifier of posts.  Any other and-ed stuff is a
result of your access path.  So above can be shortened to
http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=cpzo969i4k.fsf%40cj20424-a.reston
1.va.home.com
which now (barely) fits on one line so it can be clicked