[OT] OpenSource Python Books?

[Ivan Van Laningham]

Hi All--

(*How* can the topic of Python books be off-topic for the Python
list?!?)

Aahz Maruch wrote:
> 
> In article <386BD8D2.9B82143E at callware.com>,
> Ivan Van Laningham  <ivanlan at callware.com> wrote:
> >
> >I could easily be persuaded. ... Having just finished Teach Yourself
> >Python, [...]
> 
> No, you haven't, you just finished the first draft.  ;-)
> 

Aaahhh!  You *had* to remind me!  ;-)  See why Aahz is the tech editor
for TYPython?  He's keeping me honest (or is that subversive?).

> >Fred Drake:
> >>   I concur.  There are too many books with useless CD-ROMs already.
> >> The publishing process is slow enough that it's really hard to make
> >> this as useful as it used to be (slow downloads, lack of connectivity,
> >> etc., were *good* reasons to include the CD-ROM; the little CD-ROM
> >> icon on the cover is not).
> >
> >This is one reason I resisted putting a CD in TYPython. ...
> 
> OTOH, I think it's a Bad Idea to ship a book with lots of example code
> and no CD.
> 

If I were using 20,000 Mayan glyphs in the book, I might agree with
you;-)  Wait'll you see the web site. ...

> TEOTWAWKI -- 2 days and counting!

I don't know about you, but I'm planning on sleeping through it.  Hey,
maybe I'll wake up, C++ and Microsoft COM will have been proven to be
non-Y2K compliant and self-destructed, and I can go into work and USE
PYTHON!

<hey-it-can't-be-any-worse-than-it-is-now>-ly y'rs,
Ivan
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See also: 
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