Weekly Roundup

This week has seen some interesting news in the Python world.

• In particular, the release of Python 2.6, with support for json and a new multiprocessing paradigm.
  
• In my research for other projects, I ran across an older article by the ineffable effbot about thread synchronization.
• One of the more interesting, and sometimes confusing, parts of Python is list comprehensions, explained in good detail in this article on comprehending list comprehensions.
• I don't often need to write a parser, but the ideas presented in the "Zen of Parsing" seem very useful for those rare instances.
  

On the other hand, not everything I did this week was programming related.

• I stumbled across this list of words of wisdom from Ernest Hemmingway.
  
• Questions about copyright? You know you have them, and here are the big myths about copyright.