Which Python book?

[Justin Sheehy]

ralph at inputplus.demon.co.uk (Ralph Corderoy) writes:

> I learnt C from the excellent K&R (Old Testament), all the Unix
> little languages, and many more besides.  I learnt Perl 4 years ago
> purely from the man pages, and Perl 5 at the same time from
> eavesdropping on the perl5-porters mailing list.  I like well written,
> terse, books.  Given all of that it sounds to me as if I should remove
> _Programming Python_ from my shopping basket and add _Python Essential
> Reference_.  Your views are sought.

Yes.  If that is your preferred style of learning languages, then
Beazley's book will suit you quite well.

-Justin