I've been banging away at my Google App Engine application. It'll be a little while yet, but in the meantime, a particular observation about Python. I keep getting tripped up when I refer to a member function without the parenthesis. For instance:
>>> list = [1,2,3,4,5]
>>> print list.count
<built-in method count of list object at 0x238fa8>
This doesn't print '5' because list.count is a reference to the count method itself, which (like everything else in Python) is an object, so gets printed. You need to use list.count() with those important parentheses in order to actually get the answer 5 that you wanted. I keep getting tripped up by this and taking a while to debug the problem every time. Some things like __class__ don't need parentheses, which I think is part of the confusion. Furthermore, when you use dir() to look up the public features of a class, it doesn't do anything to show you which ones are functions:
>>> dir([])
['__add__', '__class__', '__contains__', '__delattr__', '__delitem__', '__delslice__', '__doc__', '__eq__', '__ge__', '__getattribute__', '__getitem__', '__getslice__', '__gt__', '__hash__', '__iadd__', '__imul__', '__init__', '__iter__', '__le__', '__len__', '__lt__', '__mul__', '__ne__', '__new__', '__reduce__', '__reduce_ex__', '__repr__', '__reversed__', '__rmul__', '__setattr__', '__setitem__', '__setslice__', '__str__', 'append', 'count', 'extend', 'index', 'insert', 'pop', 'remove', 'reverse', 'sort']
I rather suspect I've missed a subtle but important bit of Python understanding, having only scratched the surface so far. If someone can point that out to me I'd be very grateful.