Every so often in my Python programs I need to initialize adictionary with a whole bunch of values (and then pass it offsomewhere). For a long time, my usual approach to this was:

d = {}d['a'] = b.whatd['c'] = foo(d)....

Recently I stumbled over the better way to do this, which isembarrassingly obvious in retrospect:

d = {      'a': b.what,      'c

This week, we:

• got 11,513 messages from 227 different IP addresses.
• handled 18,277 sessions from 912 different IP addresses.
• received 133,583 connections from at least 42,540 different IPaddresses.
• hit a highwater of 8 connections being checked at once.

This is about the same as last week . Tuesday,Wednesday, and Thursday were the busiest days this week for connections;I suppose that's not

As time goes by, there's an increasing amount of stuff I want to writedown. One of the things that stalls me out on this (apart from the sheereffort of writing) is the question of where and how I should put them;in particular, should I make a wiki page or write a blog entry?

In theory this shouldn't come up; WanderingThoughts is part ofa hybrid wiki-blog, which I've extolled the virtues of before . In practice this is an illusion