Re: TOC of Python Cookbook now online (was Re: author index for Python Cookbook 2?)
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I emailed the O'Reilly webmaster, and the table of contents are now online at http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/pythoncook2/toc.html and also listed below. Unfortunately there is no list of authors for the sections in the book. This is likely its only shortcoming! -- robin -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
Re: TOC of Python Cookbook now online (was Re: author index for Python Cookbook 2?)
robin wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I emailed the O'Reilly webmaster, and the table of contents are now online at http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/pythoncook2/toc.html and also listed below. Unfortunately there is no list of authors for the sections in the book. This is likely its only shortcoming! -- robin I have found the site http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/Python/Cookbook/ , which has the code for 1142 recipes, with the names of authors listed. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
Re: author index for Python Cookbook 2?
Premshree Pillai wrote: There's an index here: http://harvestman.freezope.org/cookbook/creds.html But dunno if all the recipes were finally included. Maybe somebody (Alex?) can confirm? [snip..] Well - my copy just arrived :-) Three of my recipes are in - but one has been merged with someone elses and improved beyond all recognition :-) Regards, Fuzzy http://www.voidspace.org.uk/python -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
Re: author index for Python Cookbook 2?
Premshree Pillai wrote: There's an index here: http://harvestman.freezope.org/cookbook/creds.html That lists the authors. Where is a list of the recipes? -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
TOC of Python Cookbook now online (was Re: author index for Python Cookbook 2?)
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Premshree Pillai wrote: There's an index here: http://harvestman.freezope.org/cookbook/creds.html That lists the authors. Where is a list of the recipes? I emailed the O'Reilly webmaster, and the table of contents are now online at http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/pythoncook2/toc.html and also listed below. Table of Contents Preface 1. Text 1.1 Processing a String One Character at a Time 1.2 Converting Between Characters and Numeric Codes 1.3 Testing Whether an Object Is String-like 1.4 Aligning Strings 1.5 Trimming Space from the Ends of a String 1.6 Combining Strings 1.7 Reversing a String by Words or Characters 1.8 Checking Whether a String Contains a Set of Characters 1.9 Simplifying Usage of Strings' translate Method 1.10 Filtering a String for a Set of Characters 1.11 Checking Whether a String Is Text or Binary 1.12 Controlling Case 1.13 Accessing Substrings 1.14 Changing the Indentation of a Multiline String 1.15 Expanding and Compressing Tabs 1.16 Interpolating Variables in a String 1.17 Interpolating Variables in a String in Python 2.4 1.18 Replacing Multiple Patterns in a Single Pass 1.19 Checking a String for Any of Multiple Endings 1.20 Handling International Text with Unicode 1.21 Converting Between Unicode and Plain Strings 1.22 Printing Unicode Characters to Standard Output 1.23 Encoding Unicode Data for XML and HTML 1.24 Making Some Strings Case-Insensitive 1.25 Converting HTML Documents to Text on a Unix Terminal 2. Files 2.1 Reading from a File 2.2 Writing to a File 2.3 Searching and Replacing Text in a File 2.4 Reading a Specific Line from a File 2.5 Counting Lines in a File 2.6 Processing Every Word in a File 2.7 Using Random-Access Input/Output 2.8 Updating a Random-Access File 2.9 Reading Data from zip Files 2.10 Handling a zip File Inside a String 2.11 Archiving a Tree of Files into a Compressed tar File 2.12 Sending Binary Data to Standard Output Under Windows 2.13 Using a C++-like iostream Syntax 2.14 Rewinding an Input File to the Beginning 2.15 Adapting a File-like Object to a True File Object 2.16 Walking Directory Trees 2.17 Swapping One File Extension for AnotherThroughout a Directory Tree 2.18 Finding a File Given a Search Path 2.19 Finding Files Given a Search Path and a Pattern 2.20 Finding a File on the Python Search Path 2.21 Dynamically Changing the Python Search Path 2.22 Computing the Relative Path from One Directory to Another 2.23 Reading an Unbuffered Character in a Cross-Platform Way 2.24 Counting Pages of PDF Documents on Mac OS X 2.25 Changing File Attributes on Windows 2.26 Extracting Text from OpenOffice.org Documents 2.27 Extracting Text from Microsoft Word Documents 2.28 File Locking Using a Cross-Platform API 2.29 Versioning Filenames 2.30 Calculating CRC-64 Cyclic Redundancy Checks 3. Time and Money 3.1 Calculating Yesterday and Tomorrow 3.2 Finding Last Friday 3.3 Calculating Time Periods in a Date Range 3.4 Summing Durations of Songs 3.5 Calculating the Number of Weekdays Between Two Dates 3.6 Looking up Holidays Automatically 3.7 Fuzzy Parsing of Dates 3.8 Checking Whether Daylight Saving Time Is Currently in Effect 3.9 Converting Time Zones 3.10 Running a Command Repeatedly 3.11 Scheduling Commands 3.12 Doing Decimal Arithmetic 3.13 Formatting Decimals as Currency 3.14 Using Python as a Simple Adding Machine 3.15 Checking a Credit Card Checksum 3.16 Watching Foreign Exchange Rates 4. Python Shortcuts 4.1 Copying an Object 4.2 Constructing Lists with List Comprehensions 4.3 Returning an Element of a List If It Exists 4.4 Looping over Items and Their Indices in a Sequence 4.5 Creating Lists of Lists Without Sharing References 4.6 Flattening a Nested Sequence 4.7 Removing or Reordering Columns in a List of Rows 4.8 Transposing Two-Dimensional Arrays 4.9 Getting a Value from a Dictionary 4.10 Adding an Entry to a Dictionary 4.11 Building a Dictionary Without Excessive Quoting 4.12 Building a Dict from a List of Alternating Keys and Values 4.13 Extracting a Subset of a Dictionary 4.14 Inverting a Dictionary 4.15 Associating Multiple Values with Each Key in a Dictionary 4.16 Using a Dictionary to Dispatch Methods or Functions 4.17 Finding Unions and Intersections of Dictionaries 4.18 Collecting a Bunch of Named Items 4.19 Assigning and Testing with One Statement 4.20 Using printf in Python
author index for Python Cookbook 2?
Is there an author index for the new version of the Python cookbook? As a contributor I got my comp version delivered today and my ego wanted some gratification. I couldn't find my entries. Andrew [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
Re: author index for Python Cookbook 2?
I'm pretty sure I saw your name in one of the recipes for the new book. Why not email Oreilly -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
Re: author index for Python Cookbook 2?
Cappy2112 wrote: I'm pretty sure I saw your name in one of the recipes for the new book. Why not email Oreilly Jonathan Gennick might be interested in pointing people at that information. Unfortunately for reasons oo tedious to detail I can't mail him directly right now, but I know he's emailed this list before, so someone should be able to ask Jonathon. regards Steve -- Steve Holden+1 703 861 4237 +1 800 494 3119 Holden Web LLC http://www.holdenweb.com/ Python Web Programming http://pydish.holdenweb.com/ -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
Re: author index for Python Cookbook 2?
Yes mentioned on Page 25, recipe 1.11. It may not be the context you were expecting, but it's your name. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
