Re: Advanced Python Programming Oxford Lectures [was: Re: *Advanced* Python book?]

2010-03-27 Thread Lacrima
On Mar 26, 10:22 am, Michele Simionato michele.simion...@gmail.com wrote: On Mar 25, 2:24 pm, Michele Simionato michele.simion...@gmail.com wrote: On Mar 25, 1:28 pm, Ethan Furman et...@stoneleaf.us wrote: Michele, Was wondering if you'd had a chance to re-post your lectures -- just

Re: Advanced Python Programming Oxford Lectures [was: Re: *Advanced* Python book?]

2010-03-26 Thread Michele Simionato
On Mar 25, 2:24 pm, Michele Simionato michele.simion...@gmail.com wrote: On Mar 25, 1:28 pm, Ethan Furman et...@stoneleaf.us wrote: Michele, Was wondering if you'd had a chance to re-post your lectures -- just did a search for them and came up empty, and I would love to read them!

Advanced Python Programming Oxford Lectures [was: Re: *Advanced* Python book?]

2010-03-25 Thread Ethan Furman
Michele Simionato wrote: On Jan 16, 9:27 pm, mk mrk...@gmail.com wrote: Hello everyone, I looked for it I swear, but just can't find it. Most Python books seem to focus on examples of how to call functions from standard library. I don't need that, I have online Python documentation for that.

Re: Advanced Python Programming Oxford Lectures [was: Re: *Advanced* Python book?]

2010-03-25 Thread Michele Simionato
On Mar 25, 1:28 pm, Ethan Furman et...@stoneleaf.us wrote: Michele, Was wondering if you'd had a chance to re-post your lectures -- just did a search for them and came up empty, and I would love to read them! Many thanks in advance! Oops, I forgot! I will try to make them available soon.

Re: *Advanced* Python book?

2009-01-19 Thread Jeff McNeil
On Jan 18, 6:35 pm, Simon Brunning si...@brunningonline.net wrote: 2009/1/17 Michele Simionato michele.simion...@gmail.com: Expert Python Programming by Tarek Ziadé is quite good and I wrote a review for it: http://www.artima.com/weblogs/viewpost.jsp?thread=240415 +1 for this. I'm 3/4 of

Re: *Advanced* Python book?

2009-01-19 Thread Banibrata Dutta
2009/1/17 Michele Simionato michele.simion...@gmail.com: Expert Python Programming by Tarek Ziadé is quite good and I wrote a review for it: http://www.artima.com/weblogs/viewpost.jsp?thread=240415 Excellent review. -- regards, Banibrata http://www.linkedin.com/in/bdutta --

Re: *Advanced* Python book?

2009-01-18 Thread Simon Brunning
2009/1/17 Michele Simionato michele.simion...@gmail.com: Expert Python Programming by Tarek Ziadé is quite good and I wrote a review for it: http://www.artima.com/weblogs/viewpost.jsp?thread=240415 +1 for this. I'm 3/4 of the way through it, it's pretty good. Covers many on the important

Re: *Advanced* Python book?

2009-01-17 Thread Luis M . González
On Jan 16, 5:27 pm, mk mrk...@gmail.com wrote: Hello everyone, I looked for it I swear, but just can't find it. Most Python books seem to focus on examples of how to call functions from standard library. I don't need that, I have online Python documentation for that. I mean really

*Advanced* Python book?

2009-01-16 Thread mk
Hello everyone, I looked for it I swear, but just can't find it. Most Python books seem to focus on examples of how to call functions from standard library. I don't need that, I have online Python documentation for that. I mean really advanced mental gymnastics, like gory details of how

Re: *Advanced* Python book?

2009-01-16 Thread Jean-Claude Arbaut
mk wrote: Hello everyone, I looked for it I swear, but just can't find it. Most Python books seem to focus on examples of how to call functions from standard library. I don't need that, I have online Python documentation for that. IMHO, you don't need an advanced *python* book. If you

Re: *Advanced* Python book?

2009-01-16 Thread Paul Rubin
mk mrk...@gmail.com writes: I mean really advanced mental gymnastics, like gory details of how Python objects operate, how to exploit its dynamic capabilities, dos and donts with particular Python objects, advanced tricks, everything from chained decorators to metaprogramming. Dive Into Python

Re: *Advanced* Python book?

2009-01-16 Thread andrew cooke
not direct answers, but reading through the recipes can be interesting - http://code.activestate.com/recipes/langs/python/ also, reading any good computing book and then wondering how you can do that in python can help shed a new light on things. andrew --

Re: *Advanced* Python book?

2009-01-16 Thread Scott David Daniels
Paul Rubin wrote: mk mrk...@gmail.com writes: Anybody found such holy grail? The favorite ones around here are Python Cookbook and Python in a Nutshell, both by Alex Martelli, who used to be a newsgroup regular and still stops by from time to time. To the OP: Do yourself a favor and

Re: *Advanced* Python book?

2009-01-16 Thread Michele Simionato
On Jan 16, 9:27 pm, mk mrk...@gmail.com wrote: Hello everyone, I looked for it I swear, but just can't find it. Most Python books seem to focus on examples of how to call functions from standard library. I don't need that, I have online Python documentation for that. I mean really