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Mac OS X
     line-termination characters
     PDF files, counting pages in
     system information, gathering
Mac OS, getting user input on
mailbox files, selectively copying
mailbox modules
mailboxes
     building whitelist of email addresses from
     POP3, malformed messages 2nd
make_xlat function
makefile method, textual data source
maketrans function
     string filtering
malware
mappings
     partial, changing into full
marshal module
     limitations
     serializing data
     use cases for
Medusa
     using with XML-RPC
medusa package
Meerkat service
memoization 2nd
     implementing __deepcopy__ method
memory
     debugging problems
     file-based transformations
     leaks, investigating
     measuring usage on Linux
     ring buffers and
     saving, implementing tuples as named items
mergesort algorithm
message loops
message pumps
messages [See email messages]
met method
metaclasses 2nd
     custom, synchronization and
methods
     as attributes in Python
    bound [See bound methods]
     calling other methods on same instance
     copying between Tkinter widgets
     defining as instance objects behavior
     delegating work to same method in superclass
     dispatching with dictionaries
     hiding those supplied by delegate
     of classes, finding all
     of subclass, overriding superclass methods
     special, of classes
     string objects
     synchronizing in objects
     unbound
Microsoft Access [See Access]
Microsoft Excel
     data, extracting with Jython
     XML, parsing
Microsoft Jet
     using via ADO
Microsoft ODBC standard
Microsoft Outlook, reading contacts
Microsoft SQL Server
Microsoft Word [See Word]
MIME (Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions)
MIME messages
     bundling files in
     multipart, unpacking
mimetools module
MimeWriter module
mixin class
     checking instances for state changes
     functionality supplying across range of classes
     using cooperative supercalls
modules
     benefits over OOP objects
     building, tools for
     class definitions, including assignment statement in
     ensuring name is defined in
     importing
     Python search path and
     SWIG-generated
money tasks
     adding machine, Python as
     checking credit card checksums
     foreign exchange rates, monitoring
     formatting decimals as currency
     performing decimal arithmetic
moneyfmt function
monitoring computers
Monostate Design Pattern
MsgWaitForMultipleObjects function
MSHTML
msvcrt module 2nd
MultiListbox.__init__ method
multiple_replace function
multiprocess computing
Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions (MIME)
multitasking, without threads
multithreaded environment, using SWIG-generated modules in
multithreaded programming
     deadlocks
     main benefit of
     race conditions
MySQL
     database, accessing
     storing BLOBs in
MySQLdb module
     storing BLOBs in MySQL