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 methods used in those books outdated by now?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/
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