I just joined the list a little bit ago, and I must say while learning python 
it has proved to be a resource second to none. I myself am not from a 
traditional computer science background, more or less financial/economics, & 
discrete mathematics.  I have had courses on MySQL, Visual Basic, 
matlab,etc.... Plus, I do know more about computers than most people. But, I 
have began to program in python and learning the ropes, and playing around with 
IPython(which is def. great!!!). I was reading about creating functions/etc.... 
in one's library and I followed several examples in books(dive into 
python+python for Unix/Linux System Administration). 

But in general I wanted to do some data mining with resource retrieval from the 
internet. I found and have played with beautiful soup, scrapy, and urllib3.  I 
want to be able to retrieve the data and then put it in a MySQL(pyworkbench is 
what I have), and I was curious of perspectives to look at functions, to help 
build a multi-faceted library to undertake this task.  As well as a couple 
pointers on the ways one can import python to pyworkbench(I also have 
SQLAlchemy).  I have found the mailing list to be great, and have enjoyed the 
reading. However, as the books were insightful, and without a doubt helpful 
found this to be beyond their realm, and this list appeared to be the best 
resource. Thanks in advance!!!
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