2005/10/18, David Stotijn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > I'm planning on buying a book to help me learn Python. Some of the books > I'm considering are a few years old and based on an older version of Python > (e.g. 2.3).
Python 2.3 is not so old... :) > Is it wise to buy a book based on an older version? Are the principles and > methods used in those books outdated by now? Most of the books covers 2.3 ATM I guess > Ideally, the book I'm looking for has some "best practice" guidelines and > alot of example code. > > Do you have any tips? I found very useful the book of Magnus Lie Hatland "Practical Python" in my opinion very well done, I've heard anyway that he is going to publish a new revision. cheers -- Gian Mario Tagliaretti PyGTK GUI programming http://www.parafernalia.org/pygtk/ _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor