== Keeping up with new Python features

I have a new resolution: every so often, I'm going to read over the
current [[builtins section http://docs.python.org/lib/builtin.html]] of
the Python documentation.

I've come to this because recently I was reading through [[a page on
Python idioms http://jaynes.colorado.edu/PythonIdioms.html]] to see if
it had anything new, and stumbled over the mention of an _enumerate()_
builtin, new in Python 2.3. Well, I'm using Python 2.3, and I hadn't
remembered _enumerate()_, and I could have used it recently. Whoops.

I do try to keep up with release notes and other sources of Python news
and discussion (eg, [[Planet Python http://www.planetpython.org/]]). But
it's easy to forget about smaller things (or only remember them vaguely)
in the time between I read about a new bit and when I can use it.
Clearly I need to give myself a refresher every so often.

(If I was really ambitious I would periodically scan the entire
[[Python Library Reference http://docs.python.org/lib/lib.html]],
at least reading the one sentence description of all the modules.
I don't think I'm that energetic, though.)