[Python-authors] what should we do with this list?

[Mike Driscoll]

I'm working on finishing up a wxPython Cookbook that my blog readers have
requested me to do for a number of years. That should be done and published
sometime in November or early December. Then I'll be moving on to one on
mobile applications, assuming I can figure that out in a timely manner.

Mike

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Mike Driscoll

Blog:   http://blog.pythonlibrary.org
Books: Python 101 <https://gum.co/py101>, Python 201: Intermediate Python
<https://gum.co/py201>

On Mon, Oct 10, 2016 at 3:27 PM, Steve Holden <steve at holdenweb.com> wrote:

> As far as  not-writing work goes, I'm currently the CTO of a fintech
> startup, which has severely limited the time I've had for writing. If the
> company doesn't succeed there has to be a book in that! S
>
> Steve Holden
>
> On Mon, Oct 10, 2016 at 9:23 PM, Steve Holden <steve at holdenweb.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi Doug,
>>
>> My experience is that there aren't a huge number of changes tot he
>> standard library (and no new modules yet). I don't think you will lose a
>> lot of audience with your decisions.
>>
>> S
>>
>> Steve Holden
>>
>> On Mon, Oct 10, 2016 at 7:10 PM, Doug Hellmann <doug at doughellmann.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> On Oct 10, 2016, at 12:19 PM, Steve Holden <steve at holdenweb.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> Maybe we could encouraging some swapping of war stories, under "frieNDA".
>>>
>>> I can mention that I have an authoring project on the go - with Alex
>>> Martelli and Anna Ravenscroft I am working on the 3rd Edition of "Python in
>>> a Nutshell." I spent this weekend taking the "What's New in Python 3.6"
>>> documentation apart and analysing the changes so that we could be sure that
>>> the book will be as up to date as possible when it's published early next
>>> year.
>>>
>>>
>>> I’m working on updating “The Python Standard Library by Example” to work
>>> with Python 3.5. I haven’t tested any of my examples to make sure they
>>> still work with 3.6, and I’m close enough to my deadline that I don’t think
>>> I want to try it for now. Unless someone thinks there’s a critical new
>>> module in that version?
>>>
>>>
>>> O'Reilly wanted to have the book out for Christmas, and I fought hard to
>>> delay it, on the grounds that the publication timetable would be too rushed
>>> to submit before Christmas, product quality would have suffered and we
>>> wouldn't have been able to be definitive on 3.6. The first and only other
>>> time I wrote a major work (Python Web Programming, published in 2002) I was
>>> a brand new author, and tended to defer too easily to the publisher. But
>>> now I hope I have learned how to make an argument to them in business terms.
>>>
>>> So, having tried to get the party started, what's everyone else working
>>> on?
>>>
>>> regards
>>>  Steve
>>>
>>> Steve Holden
>>>
>>> On Mon, Oct 10, 2016 at 3:57 PM, Vasudev Ram <vasudevram at gmail.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Steve Holden wrote:
>>>>
>>>> >But if nobody has the time to perform the resultant tasks, the list
>>>> would probably be better fading away.
>>>>
>>>> What would be those resultant tasks? IIRC it's quite a while since I
>>>> saw any emails from this list, so I don't remember what kinds of
>>>> emails there may have been, earlier, of the type you refer to. Was it
>>>> something like other authors on this list being able to help out
>>>> anyone posting questions as a first-time author, with some advice?
>>>>
>>>> (I was earlier going to say maybe close the list, but it seems like a
>>>> pity to let the effort of starting it go waste).
>>>>
>>>> But, sort of agreeing now with Steve's and Mike Driscoll's  suggestion
>>>> that it be kept open, and just see if anything happens - i.e. if there
>>>> will be any activity on it and if it turns out to be useful to people.
>>>> That still doesn't solve how new people will get to know of it,
>>>> though. Maybe it could be mentioned somewhere on the Python Wiki, if
>>>> that is not already done?
>>>> And/or a post once in a while on the PSF blog?
>>>>
>>>> My 2c.
>>>>
>>>> --
>>>> Vasudev Ram
>>>> - gumroad.com/vasudevram | jugad2.blogspot.com | vasudevram.github.io
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