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  24 <h2>Web Sites</h2>
  25
  26 <p>The MacPython homepage, <a href="http://www.cwi.nl/~jack/macpython.html">
  27 www.cwi.nl/~jack/macpython.html</a>
  28 is where you can find installers, documents, links to useful packages and more.
  29 And, of course,
  30 <a href="http://www.python.org">www.python.org</a> has a much larger collection
  31 of material on Python that is not Mac-specific.</p>
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  33 <h2>News groups and Mailing lists</h2>
  34
  35 <p>There are a lot of mailing lists on Python. Some of the more interesting
  36 ones are:</p>
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  38 <li><a href="mailto:python-help@python.org">python-help@python.org</a> where
  39 you can send questions for individual support. Please check the websites mentioned
  40 above first, though!</li>
  41 <li>The <a href="news:comp.lang.python">comp.lang.python</a> newsgroup for general
  42 discussion. Also available as a
  43 <a href="http://www.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list">mailing list</a>.</li>
  44 <li>The <a href="news:comp.lang.python.announce">comp.lang.python.announce</a>
  45 newsgroup for announcements. Low-volume and moderated. Also available as a
  46 <a href="http://www.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-announce-list">mailing list</a>.</li>
  47 <li>Last but not least, the <a href="http://www.python.org/sigs/pythonmac-sig/">pythonmac-sig</a>
  48 mailing list is specifically for MacPython. Discussions on the implementation of new
  49 features, but beginners questions are welcome too.</li>
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  51
  52 <p>In addition there are Python <a href="http://www.python.org/sigs/">Special Interest Group</a>
  53 mailing lists on a wide variety of topics such as image processing, numerical algorithms
  54 and more.</p>
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  56 <h2>More</h2>
  57
  58 <p>An index of conferences, Wiki's, bookshops and more can be found at the
  59 <a href="http://www.python.org/psa/">Community</a> section of the Python website.</p>
  60
  61 <p>If you find a bug you are kindly requested to report it, preferrably through the
  62 automatic bug tracker at <a href="http://www.python.org">www.python.org</a></p>
  63
  64 <p>If you want to become an active developer you are very welcome! Join the
  65 pythonmac-sig mailing list mentioned above, and read the
  66 <a href="http://www.python.org/dev/">Developer</a> section on the Python website.</p>
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