photo id ?!?!

[Brian Quinlan]

Sorry about the first joke reply. If I understand correctly, your
objection is that you are dependant on the government for your photo id
and would prefer not to be?

Presumably you could get photo id from some non-governmental source? I
took a look at my various pieces of photo id and found:
1. An (old) student card
2. A PADI diving certification card
3. A video rental card
4. An (old) bank card with my picture on it
5. A season's (once a week) skiing pass

Plus all the government stuff.

Presumably the security requirements of the Python conference are not so
onerous that none of these pieces of non-governmental id would have been
acceptable. 

Cheers,
Brian