Starving for an Advanced Python Book

[Don Tuttle]

"lewst"
>ORA's "Programming Python" is a natural choice, but I
> can't bear buying this outdated book when the 2nd edition is due out
> in a few months (I'm dying here Lutz, hurry it up already!).

I went ahead and bought it because Oreilly's cheif editor says, "We're
timing the new edition of Programming Python to follow shortly after the
release of Python 2.0."(aka Python 3K).  If that turns out to be the case,
it won't published until sometime in 2001.  See his complete (and somewhat
dated) remarks at  http://www.oreilly.com/frank/python.html

> Does anyone have any suggestions?  I suppose I'm looking for a text
> that has examples of how to solve various kinds of programming
> problems in Python and also examples of code showing how the library
> and various modules actually work.

Fredrick Lundh's "(the Eff-bot Guide To) The Standard Python Library"
 http://www1.mightywords.com/asp/bookinfo/bookinfo.asp?theisbn=EB00002582
has many short examples.

Also "The Python Annotated Achives" is pretty much just examples and
comments.
http://shop.barnesandnoble.com/booksearch/isbnInquiry.asp?userid=589TPW6Z1E&
mscssid=7T95UX3412S92K8S0017QRP4NV5DCFDD&srefer=&isbn=0072121041

>How is the "Python Essential
> Reference" on examples?  Is it just a rebinding of the python.org
> library reference

Excelent reference, but no examples.

Don