Norm Goertzen wrote: I can just answer about books:
> -Programming Python, 2nd Edition; Mark Lutz Quite good. Exhaustive and authoritative. The 1st edition was questionable but the second one is very fine. > -Python Standard Library; Fredrik Lundh Quite a need for a beginner. The HTML docu of Python is huge and a little bit confusing at first. This book can avoid you a lot of search-and-read work. > -Python & XML; Fred L. Drake, Jr., Christopher A. Jones Required if you plan to work with XML. (there are other books regarding this topic, anyway) > -Python Cookbook; Alex Martelli, David Ascher The most useful book after your first week of real work with python. > -Learning Python, 2nd Edition; David Ascher, Mark Lutz Excellent primer. Probably too elementar for a professional programmer. > -Python Programming on Win32; Mark Hammond, Andy Robinson Excellent book for Windows users. Exhaustive and clear. > -Text Processing in Python; David Mertz Very interesting book on a very common programming task. Read it if you have time. > -Python Cookbook, 2nd Edition; David Ascher, Alex Martelli, Anna > Ravenscroft I have the 1st edition and it is very fine. The second one can just be better. HTH ----------------------------------- Alessandro Bottoni -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
