QOTW: "[buildout] is not just some stupid thing." - Alan Runyan
http://wiki.python.org/moin/buildout has more background

sum() doesn't use the best possible algorithm when dealing with floating
point numbers:
http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-list/2008-May/489396.html

Is count += 1 a thread-safe operation?
http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-list/2008-May/489103.html

Python may read a file faster than C code (!):
http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-list/2008-April/488342.html

When to use #!/usr/bin/python and other variants of the shebang line:
http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-list/2008-May/489190.html

Find and execute a function given its name:
http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-list/2008-April/488648.html
http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-list/2008-April/485451.html

How to store program configuration options in a human-readable format:
http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-list/2008-May/489094.html

A simple question triggers a long thread: why ord/chr aren't methods
of the str class? why str.join and not list.join?
http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-list/2008-April/488908.html

We're pleased to announce PyAMF 0.3.1, a lightweight library that
allows Flash and Python applications to communicate via Adobe's
ActionScript Message Format.
AMF3 and RemoteObject are supported in all the implemented Remoting
gateways, compatible with Django, Twisted, TurboGears2, Google App
Engine and any WSGI-compatible application.

This release provides improved support for Google App Engine and comes
with following changes and fixes: