This week I'm leading with Hotmail's numbers, because they continue tobe a depressing testament to Hotmail's spam problem . This week'sHotmail statistics are:

• one email accepted, probably advance fee fraud spam from the Hotmailuser name.
• 14 Hotmail messages refused due to their originating IP addresses (4in the SBL, 4 in the XBL, three from Nigeria, two from SAIX, and onefrom the Cote d'Ivoire).
• 31 Hotmail messages refused because their sender addresses had

One piece of Python optimization lore is that access to localvariables is very fast, so if you repeatedly refer to something in aloop in a function you can optimize it by copying it to a localvariable first (this often comes up when you are repeatedly calling afunction). This fast access comes about because of some implementationdetails in CPython.

The CPython interpreter doesn't run Python code directly, but firstcompiles it to bytecode for a relatively simple stack-based virtualmachine. You can see the actual