Re: ANN: New Book: Programming in Python 3

2008-12-20 Thread Jim
I too will be interested in seeing the book. Nothing wrong with Lout -- and you can choose what suits you best, of course -- but just a couple of comments on the alternative. On Dec 19, 5:21 pm, Mark Summerfield wrote: : > - I can't draw but I can tell lout to draw for me and that works well >

Re: ANN: New Book: Programming in Python 3

2008-12-20 Thread Steve Holden
Mark Summerfield wrote: [...] > > With two dozen postings on my use of English I'm now rather nervous > about the feeback I'll get on my Python 3! > There is no such thing as bad publicity. Quick, make a blog post about how there have been over twenty comments about your use of English (though do

Re: ANN: New Book: Programming in Python 3

2008-12-20 Thread Mark Summerfield
On 20 Dec, 00:32, "Colin J. Williams" wrote: > Thomas Heller wrote: > > Mark Summerfield schrieb: > >> Just a follow-up to say that the book has now been published in the > >> U.S. > >> It is now in stock at InformIT, and should reach other stores, e.g., > >> Amazon, in a week or so. > > >> Also,

Re: ANN: New Book: Programming in Python 3

2008-12-19 Thread rdmurray
Quoth Steven D'Aprano : >The second exception is if the word ends with an S. In British English, >you put the apostrophe after the S: > >Thomas' approach is wholly practical. > >In American English, they often (but not always) add an extra S: > >Thomas's approach is wholly practical. > >which in my

Re: ANN: New Book: Programming in Python 3

2008-12-19 Thread Steven D'Aprano
On Fri, 19 Dec 2008 19:35:20 -0500, Colin J. Williams wrote: > Steve Holden wrote: >> Thomas Heller wrote: (Fixing broken unicode again) >>> "One of Python's great strengths" >>> ^ >>> "and also teaches Python's functional programming features" >>> ^

Re: ANN: New Book: Programming in Python 3

2008-12-19 Thread MRAB
Steven D'Aprano wrote: On Fri, 19 Dec 2008 18:53:22 +0100, Thomas Heller wrote: Steve Holden schrieb: Thomas Heller wrote: Question from a non-native english speaker: is this now valid english? "One of Python’s great strengths" ^ "and also teaches Python’s functional prog

Re: ANN: New Book: Programming in Python 3

2008-12-19 Thread Steven D'Aprano
On Fri, 19 Dec 2008 19:32:22 -0500, Colin J. Williams wrote: (Fixing broken unicode.) >> Question from a non-native english speaker: is this now valid english? >> >> "One of Python's great strengths" >> ^ >> "and also teaches Python's functional programming features" >>

Re: ANN: New Book: Programming in Python 3

2008-12-19 Thread Steven D'Aprano
On Fri, 19 Dec 2008 18:53:22 +0100, Thomas Heller wrote: > Steve Holden schrieb: >> Thomas Heller wrote: >>> Question from a non-native english speaker: is this now valid english? >>> >>> "One of Python’s great strengths" >>> ^ >>> "and also teaches Python’s functional program

Re: ANN: New Book: Programming in Python 3

2008-12-19 Thread Steve Holden
Colin J. Williams wrote: > Steve Holden wrote: >> Thomas Heller wrote: [...] >>> Question from a non-native english speaker: is this now valid english? >>> >>> "One of Python’s great strengths" >>> ^ >>> "and also teaches Python’s functional programming features" >>>

Re: ANN: New Book: Programming in Python 3

2008-12-19 Thread Colin J. Williams
Thomas Heller wrote: Steve Holden schrieb: Thomas Heller wrote: Question from a non-native english speaker: is this now valid english? "One of Python’s great strengths" ^ "and also teaches Python’s functional programming features" ^ "The book

Re: ANN: New Book: Programming in Python 3

2008-12-19 Thread Colin J. Williams
Steve Holden wrote: Thomas Heller wrote: Mark Summerfield schrieb: Just a follow-up to say that the book has now been published in the U.S. It is now in stock at InformIT, and should reach other stores, e.g., Amazon, in a week or so. Also, the introduction, the first few pages of the first cha

Re: ANN: New Book: Programming in Python 3

2008-12-19 Thread Colin J. Williams
Stefan Behnel wrote: Thomas Heller wrote: Mark Summerfield schrieb: Just a follow-up to say that the book has now been published in the U.S. It is now in stock at InformIT, and should reach other stores, e.g., Amazon, in a week or so. Also, the introduction, the first few pages of the first ch

Re: ANN: New Book: Programming in Python 3

2008-12-19 Thread Colin J. Williams
Thomas Heller wrote: Mark Summerfield schrieb: Just a follow-up to say that the book has now been published in the U.S. It is now in stock at InformIT, and should reach other stores, e.g., Amazon, in a week or so. Also, the introduction, the first few pages of the first chapter, the whole of ch

Re: ANN: New Book: Programming in Python 3

2008-12-19 Thread Mark Summerfield
On 19 Dec, 19:52, excord80 wrote: > On Dec 4, 2:42 pm, Alan G Isaac wrote: > > > Mark Summerfield wrote: > > > "Programming in Python 3: > > > A Complete Introduction to the Python Language" > > > ISBN 0137129297 > > >http://www.qtrac.eu/py3book.html > > > OMG, you really wrote it in Lout? > > I

Re: ANN: New Book: Programming in Python 3

2008-12-19 Thread excord80
On Dec 4, 2:42 pm, Alan G Isaac wrote: > Mark Summerfield wrote: > > "Programming in Python 3: > > A Complete Introduction to the Python Language" > > ISBN 0137129297 > >http://www.qtrac.eu/py3book.html > > OMG, you really wrote it in Lout? > I wish you would add to http://www.qtrac.eu/lout.html >

Re: ANN: New Book: Programming in Python 3

2008-12-19 Thread Benjamin Kaplan
On Fri, Dec 19, 2008 at 12:53 PM, Thomas Heller wrote: > Steve Holden schrieb: > > Thomas Heller wrote: > >> Question from a non-native english speaker: is this now valid english? > >> > >> "One of Python's great strengths" > >> ^ > >> "and also teaches Python's functional pro

Re: ANN: New Book: Programming in Python 3

2008-12-19 Thread Paul Rudin
Thomas Heller writes: > Steve Holden schrieb: >> Thomas Heller wrote: >>> Question from a non-native english speaker: is this now valid english? >>> >>> "One of Python’s great strengths" >>> ^ >>> "and also teaches Python’s functional programming features" >>>

Re: ANN: New Book: Programming in Python 3

2008-12-19 Thread Thomas Heller
Steve Holden schrieb: > Thomas Heller wrote: >> Question from a non-native english speaker: is this now valid english? >> >> "One of Python’s great strengths" >> ^ >> "and also teaches Python’s functional programming features" >> ^ >> "The book’s app

Re: ANN: New Book: Programming in Python 3

2008-12-19 Thread Stefan Behnel
Thomas Heller wrote: > Mark Summerfield schrieb: >> Just a follow-up to say that the book has now been published in the >> U.S. >> It is now in stock at InformIT, and should reach other stores, e.g., >> Amazon, in a week or so. >> >> Also, the introduction, the first few pages of the first chapter,

Re: ANN: New Book: Programming in Python 3

2008-12-19 Thread Steve Holden
Thomas Heller wrote: > Mark Summerfield schrieb: >> Just a follow-up to say that the book has now been published in the >> U.S. >> It is now in stock at InformIT, and should reach other stores, e.g., >> Amazon, in a week or so. >> >> Also, the introduction, the first few pages of the first chapter,

Re: ANN: New Book: Programming in Python 3

2008-12-19 Thread MRAB
Thomas Heller wrote: Mark Summerfield schrieb: Just a follow-up to say that the book has now been published in the U.S. It is now in stock at InformIT, and should reach other stores, e.g., Amazon, in a week or so. Also, the introduction, the first few pages of the first chapter, the whole of ch

Re: ANN: New Book: Programming in Python 3

2008-12-19 Thread Thomas Heller
Mark Summerfield schrieb: > Just a follow-up to say that the book has now been published in the > U.S. > It is now in stock at InformIT, and should reach other stores, e.g., > Amazon, in a week or so. > > Also, the introduction, the first few pages of the first chapter, the > whole of chapter 12 (

Re: ANN: New Book: Programming in Python 3

2008-12-19 Thread Mark Summerfield
Just a follow-up to say that the book has now been published in the U.S. It is now in stock at InformIT, and should reach other stores, e.g., Amazon, in a week or so. Also, the introduction, the first few pages of the first chapter, the whole of chapter 12 (regular expressions), and the index are

Re: ANN: New Book: Programming in Python 3

2008-12-05 Thread Dotan Cohen
2008/12/5 Mark Summerfield <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > I don't think the book is due in Europe until the end of January, but > could take longer for elsewhere. (Of course Israel is in Europe > according to the Eurovision Song Contest, so you might get lucky:) > Yes, we are in the unique geographical an

Re: ANN: New Book: Programming in Python 3

2008-12-04 Thread Mark Summerfield
On 2008-12-04, Dotan Cohen wrote: > 2008/12/4 Mark Summerfield <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > Now that Python 3 final has been released I thought it would be a good > > time to mention that there's a new book to go with it: > > > > "Programming in Python 3: > > A Complete Introduction to the Python Langu

Re: ANN: New Book: Programming in Python 3

2008-12-04 Thread Dotan Cohen
2008/12/4 Mark Summerfield <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Now that Python 3 final has been released I thought it would be a good time > to mention that there's a new book to go with it: > > "Programming in Python 3: > A Complete Introduction to the Python Language" > ISBN 0137129297 > http://www.qtrac.eu/p

Re: ANN: New Book: Programming in Python 3

2008-12-04 Thread James Matthews
I am going to be checking Amazon now and ordering the book. Thanks James On Thu, Dec 4, 2008 at 9:42 PM, Alan G Isaac <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Mark Summerfield wrote: > >> "Programming in Python 3: >> A Complete Introduction to the Python Language" >> ISBN 0137129297 >> http://www.qtrac.eu/p

Re: ANN: New Book: Programming in Python 3

2008-12-04 Thread Alan G Isaac
Mark Summerfield wrote: "Programming in Python 3: A Complete Introduction to the Python Language" ISBN 0137129297 http://www.qtrac.eu/py3book.html OMG, you really wrote it in Lout? I wish you would add to http://www.qtrac.eu/lout.html a comment on what you get out of that (compared to using e.

ANN: New Book: Programming in Python 3

2008-12-04 Thread Mark Summerfield
Now that Python 3 final has been released I thought it would be a good time to mention that there's a new book to go with it: "Programming in Python 3: A Complete Introduction to the Python Language" ISBN 0137129297 http://www.qtrac.eu/py3book.html I've been working on this for more than a year,