Which Python book?

[Art Pollard]

Kevin McKinley <kevinmck at infi.net> wrote in message
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> I'll be starting Python soon.
>
> Which tutorial are you referring to?

I don't think that I referred to a tutorial (except for a non-existant one.)

What I recommend (though I am just learning Python) is the following:

1) Quick Python
2) Python Essential Reference

Quick Python has IMHO a great explanation as to how Python works
and will help explain the syntax etc. which you need to get up and going.

Python Essential Reference is also a wonderful book and its explanations
are more terse but well written.  It is just what the name implies a
reference
and a good one at that.  Python's syntax from what I have seen so far is
pretty simple so once you get that down, I think the main issues are
learning
the tools which Python provides and their parameters which PER provides
along with brief but informative explanations.

The one thing I would like to see somewhere is a tutorial on using IDLE and
how to debug Python programs using it.  I haven't found this anywhere but I
sure would like to see it.

-Art