On Mar 9, 1:33 pm, Bruno Desthuilliers <bdesth.quelquech...@free.quelquepart.fr> wrote: > David Cournapeau a écrit : > > > On Mon, Mar 9, 2009 at 11:33 PM, grocery_stocker <cdal...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> On Mar 9, 5:30 am, Nick Craig-Wood <n...@craig-wood.com> wrote: > >>> Go here > > >>> http://www.diveintopython.org/ > > >>> Download the PDF or buy the book. > > >> What about the stuff on docs.python.org? Isn't that information just > >> as reliable? > > > They do not serve the same purpose. diveintopython is an excellent > > introduction to python for someone already familiar with at least one > > programming language, and the documentation on python.org aims at > > being extensive. > > I first learned Python using the official tutorial - already knew VB, > Java, Pascal, bits of C and C++ and some almost unknown crappy > proprietary basic-like language - and I found it a pretty good > introduction to what one *must* know about Python. > > But YMMV of course - and I'm by no mean saying DIP is a bad book !-)
Yeah, I'm learning the language alreadying knowing scheme, haskell, some perl, and enough C to get me by. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
