Hi Doug, My experience is that there aren't a huge number of changes tot he standard library (and no new modules yet). I don't think you will lose a lot of audience with your decisions.
S Steve Holden On Mon, Oct 10, 2016 at 7:10 PM, Doug Hellmann <d...@doughellmann.com> wrote: > > On Oct 10, 2016, at 12:19 PM, Steve Holden <st...@holdenweb.com> wrote: > > Maybe we could encouraging some swapping of war stories, under "frieNDA". > > I can mention that I have an authoring project on the go - with Alex > Martelli and Anna Ravenscroft I am working on the 3rd Edition of "Python in > a Nutshell." I spent this weekend taking the "What's New in Python 3.6" > documentation apart and analysing the changes so that we could be sure that > the book will be as up to date as possible when it's published early next > year. > > > I’m working on updating “The Python Standard Library by Example” to work > with Python 3.5. I haven’t tested any of my examples to make sure they > still work with 3.6, and I’m close enough to my deadline that I don’t think > I want to try it for now. Unless someone thinks there’s a critical new > module in that version? > > > O'Reilly wanted to have the book out for Christmas, and I fought hard to > delay it, on the grounds that the publication timetable would be too rushed > to submit before Christmas, product quality would have suffered and we > wouldn't have been able to be definitive on 3.6. The first and only other > time I wrote a major work (Python Web Programming, published in 2002) I was > a brand new author, and tended to defer too easily to the publisher. But > now I hope I have learned how to make an argument to them in business terms. > > So, having tried to get the party started, what's everyone else working on? > > regards > Steve > > Steve Holden > > On Mon, Oct 10, 2016 at 3:57 PM, Vasudev Ram <vasudev...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Steve Holden wrote: >> >> >But if nobody has the time to perform the resultant tasks, the list >> would probably be better fading away. >> >> What would be those resultant tasks? IIRC it's quite a while since I >> saw any emails from this list, so I don't remember what kinds of >> emails there may have been, earlier, of the type you refer to. Was it >> something like other authors on this list being able to help out >> anyone posting questions as a first-time author, with some advice? >> >> (I was earlier going to say maybe close the list, but it seems like a >> pity to let the effort of starting it go waste). >> >> But, sort of agreeing now with Steve's and Mike Driscoll's suggestion >> that it be kept open, and just see if anything happens - i.e. if there >> will be any activity on it and if it turns out to be useful to people. >> That still doesn't solve how new people will get to know of it, >> though. Maybe it could be mentioned somewhere on the Python Wiki, if >> that is not already done? >> And/or a post once in a while on the PSF blog? >> >> My 2c. >> >> -- >> Vasudev Ram >> - gumroad.com/vasudevram | jugad2.blogspot.com | vasudevram.github.io >> >> FlyWheel - Managed WordPress Hosting: - http://share.getf.ly/p35s5a >> > > > > _______________________________________________ > Python-authors mailing list > Python-authors@python.org > https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-authors > >
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