On Tue, 14 Aug 2007, Brian Wisti wrote: > Check with your local library, too.
Or even your not-so-local library. > The Seattle Public Library provides access to a limited selection of the > Safari books (stuff published in the last 2 years from a handful of > publishers). Maybe your region has similar access. I just did a quick search of the San Jose catalog, and see a bunch of online Python-related books: Core Python Programming (2006, 2 copies) Game Programming with Python (2004) Programming Python (2006, 2 copies) Python Cookbook (2005, 2 copies) Python Essential reference (2006, 2 copies) Python in a Nutshell (2006, 2 copies) Python Phrasebook (2006, 2 copies) Python programming for the absolute beginner (2003) Python programming on Win32 (2000) Rapid web appplications with TurboGears (2006, 2 copies) Sams teach yourself Python in 24 hours (2000) Twisted network programming essentials (2005) Twisted network programming essentials (2006, 2 copies) And here's the kicker: The City of San Jose offers free library cards to all California residents or property owners. http://www.sjlibrary.org/legal/policies.htm?pID=313 So a lot of not-so-local readers can get access to this material. It's not nationwide or worldwide, but it's better than just being limited to San Jose. (Of course I don't know the practical aspects of getting a library card; can you do it by mail?) But leaving this particular library aside: see if there's a large library system that you're not personally a part of that you can use. For years, I lived in Santa Clara, not too far from San Jose. I used Santa Clara's own city library; the much larger San Jose library; the Santa Clara County library system (which provides a library to a number of cities in the county that prefer to be part of a larger system to operating their own); and even, for a while, the Santa Cruz County library system (when I used to work down that way). Libraries rock. Use them well, and you can rock, too. _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
