qwwee: > for a certain argument I'd prefer an application fully >explained (also if not covering all the features) to a more general >tutorial with only brief and unrelated code snippets. >Unfortunately, that's not the way things are normally done, because it >is much harder to build a useful application and fully comment it
A part the Cookbook, I know of at least two Python books taking the approach you describe: 1. Dive into Python (Pilgrim) 2. Programming Python (Lutz) Dive into Python is free (and even translated in Italian on www.python.it, IIRC) Michele Simionato -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list