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Gudio 的主页上面题有：笨拙并以此为荣（Gawkyand proud of it）。他推崇开放和自由，喜欢印有YouNeed Python的文化衫和PYTHON的车牌，主张Computer Programming for Everybody，让Python为我们开心地工作。

开发小组成员利用邮件列表python-dev和新闻组comp.lang.python沟通交流，用SourceForge 完成代码管理、版本控制、特性跟踪、Bugs修复、提交补丁。

由Guido本人和Bruce Eckel主持的PyCon2004 是面向Python社区的开发者盛会。PyCon2004议题涉及Web开发、数学和科学计算、Pyrex、Zope、GUI、3D、面向对象、Twisted网络框架、分布式应用。

已经创建了一种叫Pyrex 的语言，它融合了Python 和 C。一旦用 C 编译器进行了编译，就可以将这些Pyrex语言模块导入常规的 Python 应用程序并使用。与直接用C编写扩展相比，Pyrex允许在同一代码中更无缝地混合C级别的变量和Python级别的变量对象。扩展模块Psyco还可以插入Python解释器的内部，让它运行得更快。

Python语言非常接近人类的自然语言。Python源程序被称作可执行的伪代码，具有极高的可读性。

Python是平台兼容，高度可移植的，可以运行在许多Unix 变体，Mac，MS-DOS，Windows，嵌入式等平台。Python 2.0增加了对Unicode支持。Python社区还为你提供了最佳的工具和商业应用的秘密武器。

Python已经集成在大多数Linux发行版中。RedHat使用Python制作安装程序Anaconda（蟒蛇）。Gentoo的emerge 和portage 使用Python构建完整的系统。所有运行Mac OS X的Apple计算机的基本安装都包括Python。HP和Compaq的很多机器使用Python进行服务管Zope应用服务器是Python构建复杂系统的最佳实例。Plone内容管理系统是Zope应用最广泛的产品。Zope和Plone方案成了O'Reilly Open Source Conference2004的明星。BitTorrent使得Python更加出名和流行。BT完美地应用了Python相关的多种解决方案：设计优雅、跨平台的语言和标准网络库的强力支持，wxPython跨平台的GUI，用py2exe绑定虚拟机并编译为可执行程序发布。RealNetworks的开源项目Helix 播放器（RealOne）用Python构建应用系统。

ata is being collected, presented, and acted upon in real time. The scale of participation has increased by orders of magnitude.

lifestream

All of a sudden, we’re not using search via a keyboard and a stilted search grammar, we’re talking to and with the Web. It’s getting smart enough to understand some things (such as where we are) without us having to tell it explicitly. And that’s just the beginning.

But it’s important to realize that machine learning techniques apply to far more than just sensor data.

information shadows

geotagging

The smartphone revolution has moved the Web from our desks to our pockets. Collective intelligence applications are no longer being driven solely by humans typing on keyboards but, increasingly, by sensors.

With more users and sensors feeding more applications and platforms, developers are able to tackle serious real-world problems.

The Web is no longer a collection of static pages of HTML that describe something in the world. Increasingly, the Web is the world – everything and everyone in the world casts an "information shadow," an aura of data which, when captured and processed intelligently, offers extraordinary opportunity and mind bending implications.

It’s easy to forget that only 15 years ago, email was as fragmented as social networking is today, with hundreds of incompatible email systems joined by fragile and congested gateways. One of those systems – internet RFC 822 email – became the gold standard for interchange.

They thus turn what at first appeared to be unstructured into structured data.