good python tutorials for C mother-tongues?

[June Kim]

Thank you all who have answered me.
As you guys recommended, I'm reading through Guido's, and hopefully
will finish it sooner or later. For the next step I've been considering
several
books and Mr. Griffin said he read "Learning Python" from beloved O'Reily.
However, I was somewhat surprised after I visited AMAZON to read some
reviews about it, which turned out to be critical and negative to some
degree.
I love O'Reily's Learning/Programming Perl and thought Learning Python
would keep up with the great style as those, but people wrote Python
versions of Learning/Programming are way below expectations.

What are your opinions?



"Grant Griffin" <g2 at seebelow.org> wrote in message
news:39D98690.9821F93C at seebelow.org...
> June Kim wrote:
> >
> > Just as the subject goes.
> >
> > Are there any good python tutorials for
> > professional programmers who's been
> > brought up in C language?
>
> The tutorial that comes with Python (by Guido van Rossum, Python's
> creator) is very good.  I spent one full working day going through it,
> and I felt like I had a basic understanding of Python at the end of the
> day.  Then, in the next few days, I was able to write several small (but
> non-trivial) programs in Python.
>
> I bet most experienced C programmers would have a similar experience.
> The only thing that might be difficult for C (but not C++) programmers
> is Python's object-oriented features.  If you don't already know about
> OO programming, Python is probably a good language to learn it in, but
> Guido's tutorial is directed at teaching how _Python_ does OO, not at
> teaching OO concepts in general.  (There are lots of good (and not so
> good) books on that.)
>
> The next thing I did was read the book "Learning Python" cover-to-cover,
> which filled in some details.  Now, after having practiced Python for
> many months, I'm reading "Python Essential Reference" cover-to-cover.
> Again, that fills in more details.
>
> Also, I recommend you study the online documentation for Python's most
> useful modules: os, os.path, sys, and string; you will use one or more
> of these in nearly any substantial Python program.  (Python has a
> zillion modules, so I kindda had to figure out for myself which modules
> I should really "learn".)
>
> one-of-the-nicest-things-about-Python-is-that-you-can-learn-it-in
>    -layers-ly y'rs,
>
> =g2
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