On Feb 9, 2005, at 9:56 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
what is currently Essential Reading on Python, I mean in print rather
Of course, "it depends". Dive into Python looks pretty good. Python
I've been beating on people with, err, recommending Dive Into Python, for two reasons - you can read it online to see if it suits you, *and* it's *very* different in style from most language teaching books, none of that 'useless hello world nonsense', it really does start out with hairy code - because you can *read* it and learn interesting points in a context which makes it clear that they're not just pedantic points, but that they apply to real problems. (I've found it useful for porting perl programmers, too :-)
I also suggest (especially if you like working from Real Paper Books) the Python Standard Libraries book - not to read through, but to pick up, thumb through and random, and say "oh, that's a cool thing"... getting familiar with "batteries" that are in reach, along a different path from the usual (google :-) path...
I find myself typing "foo site:docs.python.org" into the Safari search bar when I want to find something in the stdlib or C API, but usually I already know more or less what I'm looking for. I do the same thing looking up Cocoa docs at developer.apple.com.
-bob
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