Re: Recommend an E-book Meeting the Following Criteria (Newbie, Long)

2005-12-15 Thread Veli-Pekka T�til
gene tani wrote: > Since your'e experienced, you might be > able to just dive in with Python in Nutshell and Python Cookbook > http://safari.oreilly.com/JVXSL.asp Based on the reviews and extras the nutshell looks good. I've just realized that you can combine Python and Java. THat would really giv

Re: Recommend an E-book Meeting the Following Criteria (Newbie, Long)

2005-12-15 Thread Veli-Pekka T�til
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I reccomend David Mertz's text: > http://gnosis.cx/TPiP/ > Despite name its more that just text processing I'll give that one a try, thanks. I guess it might be just the book as far as the text processing that I've used to doing in Perl goes. I'm also interested in par

Re: Recommend an E-book Meeting the Following Criteria (Newbie, Long)

2005-12-15 Thread andypurshottam
I reccomend David Mertz's text: http://gnosis.cx/TPiP/ Despite name its more that just text processing, he uses "modern" (ie, 20 - 30 years old) style of programming in examples, often using library packages, especially parsing tools. Online version is free, but you can pay him buy buying the p-bo

Re: Recommend an E-book Meeting the Following Criteria (Newbie, Long)

2005-12-14 Thread gene tani
Veli-Pekka Tätilä wrote: > 5. Before I let you go I should mention one important factor in choosing the > book. I know this narrows down the scope loads, but if at all possible the > book should be readily available in electronic form. My favorite formats > are: CHM, TXT, HTML, accessible PDF and

Recommend an E-book Meeting the Following Criteria (Newbie, Long)

2005-12-14 Thread Veli-Pekka T�til
Hi, I know several programming languages namely Java, Perl and C in this order and would now like to pick up the Python basics fairly quickly. I've found that the best way to learn for me is to get a good book (for Christmas in this case), spend some time with it and do my own coding. Now I'm w