[Chicago] Monadnock booked

[Ian Bicking]

Michael Tobis wrote:
> I ahve booked the Monadnock conference room for Thursday evening.
> 
> I'd appreciate if attendees could bring along a couple of bucks to
> cover my costs.

Great, we'll be sure to pass the hat.

Now... what will we be talking about?  I could do a mini talk on 
UserDict, but that's only like 10 minutes.  We could do a stdlib roundup 
if some other people want to talk about a module.  Scanning the module 
index (http://docs.python.org/lib/modindex.html), these are modules that 
seem possible; not too involved, but not entirely trivial.  Though some 
are almost entirely trivial (like StringIO).  Even just a runthrough of 
a small script you've written that uses one of these.  I could do that 
for imaplib.

cmd
ConfigParser
copy
csv
decimal
email / smtplib
fileinput
glob / fnmatch
ftplib
gc
getpass
gettext
gzip / zlib
hmac / sha / md5
httplib
imaplib / poplib
inspect
itertools
mailbox
mimetypes / webbrowser
operator
optparse
pickle / shelve
pprint
re
sets
StringIO
tarfile / zipfile
telnetlib
textwrap
threading
turtle
urllib2 / urllib
urlparse
warnings
weakref
xmlrpclib