Re: Intermediate to expert book

2005-09-21 Thread Tonguc Yumruk
Tony Houghton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Can anyone recommend a good book for intermediate up to expert level? ... > 2.4 would be a bonus. > > I've heard good things about "Dive Into Python". I see it can be > downloaded or read online, and on a very quick browse it seems to be > suitably to th

Re: Intermediate to expert book

2005-09-21 Thread Paul Rubin
Tony Houghton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Can anyone recommend a good book for intermediate up to expert level? Python Cookbook (2nd ed.) by Alex Martelli, if you really want a dead tree book. It's not so much about Python itself, as how to accomplish various things with it. If you just want t

Re: Intermediate to expert book

2005-09-21 Thread George Sakkis
"Tony Houghton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Can anyone recommend a good book for intermediate up to expert level? > I'm an experienced C programmer and I learnt Python from the "Learning > Python" O'Reilly book because it had good reviews. I was disappointed > th

Re: Intermediate to expert book

2005-09-21 Thread Steve Bergman
I'm waiting for the release of the next edition of "Programming Python" from O'Reilly. It's due out in December. The current edition is rather oldish. From 2001, I believe. Steve -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Intermediate to expert book

2005-09-21 Thread Tony Houghton
Can anyone recommend a good book for intermediate up to expert level? I'm an experienced C programmer and I learnt Python from the "Learning Python" O'Reilly book because it had good reviews. I was disappointed though. It was difficult to read because it was so verbose. It would sometimes take mor