Re: Python in a Nutshell -- Book vs Web

2008-08-29 Thread Cameron Laird
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Fredrik Lundh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Cameron Laird wrote: No. No, to an almost libelous extent. No matter what you write about, there's always a certain subcategory of potential readers who insist that collection, editing, filtering, structuring,

Re: Python in a Nutshell -- Book vs Web

2008-08-29 Thread Michele Simionato
On Aug 29, 1:44 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Cameron Laird) wrote: Insightful.  Well, I find it insightful; perhaps it's a personal blindness on my part.  I expect programmers to understand, for example, that two lines of code can be a good day's production, in some circumstances My best days are

Python in a Nutshell -- Book vs Web

2008-08-28 Thread W. eWatson
I read an Amazon of Python in a Nutshell. The first edition is supposedly much like the web site. What web site? The second edition apparently adds more to the book than the web site. -- Wayne Watson (Watson Adventures, Prop., Nevada City, CA) (121.015 Deg. W, 39.262

Re: Python in a Nutshell -- Book vs Web

2008-08-28 Thread Matimus
On Aug 28, 3:05 pm, W. eWatson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I read an Amazon of Python in a Nutshell. The first edition is supposedly much like the web site. What web site? The second edition apparently adds more to the book than the web site. O'Reilly seems to just read all of the available

Re: Python in a Nutshell -- Book vs Web

2008-08-28 Thread Cameron Laird
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Matimus [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Aug 28, 3:05 pm, W. eWatson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I read an Amazon of Python in a Nutshell. The first edition is supposedly much like the web site. What web site? The second edition apparently adds more to the book than the

Re: Python in a Nutshell -- Book vs Web

2008-08-28 Thread Benjamin Kaplan
On Thu, Aug 28, 2008 at 7:58 PM, Cameron Laird [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Matimus [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Aug 28, 3:05 pm, W. eWatson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I read an Amazon of Python in a Nutshell. The first edition is supposedly much like the web

Re: Python in a Nutshell -- Book vs Web

2008-08-28 Thread Fredrik Lundh
Cameron Laird wrote: No. No, to an almost libelous extent. No matter what you write about, there's always a certain subcategory of potential readers who insist that collection, editing, filtering, structuring, clarification, and the author's real-life experience of the topic he's writing