Here's another example of Python's introspection and commandinterpreter being useful:

[x for x in dir(m) if isinstance(getattr(m, x), str) and 'localhost' in getattr(m, x)]

One of our Mailman lists had been accidentally set up thinking thatthe machine's name was 'localhost', instead of the machine's actualhostname, and this was causing problems. Mailman is written in Pythonand offers access to the internals of list data

Since reddit.com and digg.com started showing up on the geek radar,I've been checking them out. Since both are about the same thing,roughly a 'just the links' version of Slashdot 's 'news for nerds' approach, Iexpected to like them about equally, or like digg.com more, sinceit has link summaries (which are often the most useful bit of Slashdotfor me).

To my surprise, I've been barely visiting digg.com , but