Gabriel Genellina <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > En Tue, 03 Apr 2007 12:40:23 -0300, Jim Aikin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > escribió: > > > The Tutorial is very good, but there are numerous topics that it slides > > past > > (as it would have to do, in order to avoid being ten times as long). I > > haven't yet gotten deep enough into Python to even know where to look > > for a > > full explanation of what "import" does or what alternatives there might > > be > > to using it. > > There are many books about Python: > http://wiki.python.org/moin/IntroductoryBooks > "Dive into Python" may be a good choice if you have some programming > experience in another languages.
OTOH, it doesn't really offer "a full explanation" and even alternatives, as Jim requests; I know of no _introductory_ book that meets that requirement as stated. Hey, even "Python in a Nutshell" might fall a little short, since "a full explanation" of all subtle intricacies of "import" (never mind "alternatives") might take at least a hundred pages, and I don't devote more than 50 to the subject; I figured that covering 99% of the subject in 50 pages was better than taking twice as many pages to cover 100%... or try to... hey, just today, at work, Guido and I and a couple of other colleagues had a disagreement on how exactly importing would work in a certain subtle case, and we settled it by careful _experiments_ -- and, remember, he INVENTED the language, and I wrote the best-selling reference book on the language -- thinking of a *full* explanation of subtleties that can momentarily confound us, in an *introductory* book, boggles the mind!-) Alex -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
