Well,
I have not read the previous version, but I would like to see an example how to redirect console messages from scripts to Tk windows in UTF-8/16 for debugging purposes. (I hate those "ordinal not in range(128)" messages) This involves setting font (Arial MS Unicode), scrollbar and "Continue" -button (allows script to continue execution). It could be called "Unicode aware scrollable message box in Tk"
-pekka- Alex Martelli wrote:
I'm considering proposing to O'Reilly a 2nd edition of "Python in a Nutshell", that I'd write in 2005, essentially to cover Python 2.3 and 2.4 (the current 1st edition only covers Python up to 2.2).
What I have in mind is not as complete a rewrite as for the 2nd vs 1st edition of the Cookbook -- Python hasn't changed drastically between 2.2 and 2.4, just incrementally. Language and built-ins additions I'd of course cover -- decorators, custom descriptors (already in 2.2 but not well covered in the 1st edition), importing from zipfiles, extended slicing of built-in sequences, sets, genexps, ... and also major new standard library modules such as (in no special order) optparse, tarfile, bsddb's new stuff, logging, Decimal, cookielib, datetime, email... and new capabilities of existing modules, such as thread-local storage. Outside of the standard library, I was thinking of expanding the coverage of Twisted and adding just a few things (numarray -- perhaps premature to have it _instead_ of Numeric, though; dateutils, paramiko, py2app...). Since the book's size can't change much, I'll also have to snip some stuff (the pre-email ways to deal with mail, for example; modules asyncore and asynchat, probably) to make space for all of the additions.
I haven't take any real decisions about it, yet, except one: I'll keep covering Tkinter, rather than moving to, say, wxPython (no space to _add_ wx coverage while leaving Tk intact - having to choose, I still believe Tkinter coverage is going to help more readers). Just about everything else is still to be finalized in my mind...
So, if there's any advice or request about a 2nd edition of the Nutshell, this is the right time for y'all to let me know. Feedback is welcome, either privately or right here. Thanks in advance -- _and_ apologies in advance because I know I just won't be able to accomodate all the requests/advice, given the constraints on book size &c.
Alex
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