I got curious about what 'slot wrapper' objects are after I encounteredthem in FindingMethodProviderII , so I went digging in the CPythonsource. It turns out that the answer requires understanding the internalstructure of CPython.

Python types written in C start with a big structure that definesvarious details about them, including a large number of pointers tofunctions that implement various basic operations such as deallocatingobjects of this type, getting and setting attributes, comparison, andso on. Many but not all of these correspond to Python level

CSS has a very complicated system of CSS selectors , which let you pick outjust what you are applying some (cascading) style to; they range fromobvious to what I consider obscure, such as adjacent sibling selectors.

(An adjacent sibling selector is written E + F ; it matches any Felement that is immediately preceded by an E element.)

It turns out that there is a straightforward use for them: interiormargins.

Suppose that you have a table where you want the cells in a horizontalrow to

This week, we:

• got 10,437 messages from 238 different IP addresses.
• handled 19,475 sessions from 1,336 different IP addresses.
• received 213,499 connections from at least 71,964 different IPaddresses.
• hit a highwater of 8 connections being checked at once.

This is down from last week on the absolutenumbers, but may be up somewhat if we exclude the effects of the oneprolific connector from last

One way to put it is that in system administration, an issue that takesall of your time and energy for a week is a big thing and one that takesa month is generally a crisis. The same generally cannot be said ofprogramming except at a very small level; while you may clearly be goingup steps, the top of the path is generally not in sight.

Or in other words, you accomplish visible things much faster in systemadministration, and this gives you real, tangible signs of progress and