On Sat, Jun 20, 2009 at 01:10:21AM -0400, Steve Scaffidi wrote: > I actually *do* own a copy of Programming Python which I'd be *happy* to > sacrifice, um, *offer* for this worthy cause! > > That book weighs a ton, and it was next to useless to me when I learned and > worked with Python last year.
I concur. After using Programming Perl for so long and finding it extremely effective, I was very disappointed in Programming Python. Somewhere in the first 50 or so pages, I noticed a comment saying something like "this book is not intended to be a reference manual" - unfortunately, from my experience with the camel, that is exactly what I had expected it to be when I got the book. (The camel includes a full reference manual, but augments that with expository info that tripes the size in a useful way. The python is even larger but missing that essential core ingredient.) _______________________________________________ Boston-pm mailing list Boston-pm@mail.pm.org http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/boston-pm
