Yeah I considered taking it over myself when it was first put up for offer.
But the more I thought about it, the more I realized that it could be quite
hands-on considering the constant evolution of the python code. At least you
realized this early and was able to offer it up to someone who may be
I have taken over diveintopython a couple of weeks ago, expecting it to
be pretty easily-maintainable as the book changes very rarely.
Well, looks like I was wrong.
The build process has recently been patched to use xalan-j because saxon
dropped XSLT 1.0 support as far as I understand, and it invol