Book Review - Python Essential Reference

[Jason Stokes]

Danny Yee wrote in message <87jobv$uoc$1 at thrud.anatomy.usyd.edu.au>...

> The first section has
>some examples and explanation, but tends to the concise rather than the
>discursive and is not suitable for learning Python from (except perhaps
>for experienced programmers).

Yay, I'm an experienced programmer!

Actually, it depends on what kind of experience one has.  Since I'm
reasonably well acquainted with Perl, Haskell, Smalltalk and Scheme, I
learned Python to a reasonable standard from the reference in one afternoon.