11-15 new Python Books on the way! (fwd)

[Jon Schull]

"Bruce Eckel" <Bruce at EckelObjects.com> wrote in message news:<mailman.1007864052.25682.python-list at python.org>...
> There's a chapter in "Thinking in Patterns" (downloadable from
> http://64.78.49.204/) that might help, although it does assume you
> know something about Java, sorry. Plus many people have found
> "Thinking in Java" (also downloadable from the same site) to be
> helpful in understanding that language. I don't feel bad tooting my
> horn, since it's free, so no risk on your part.
> 

This is good stuff and useful.  Still it strikes me as an interesting
opportunity (but for the lack of a magical API documentation
conversion utility) that one should, in principal, be able to use
Jython and all the Java libraries without learning to read Java.


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> On 12/8/01 at 5:25 PM schull at digitalgoods.com wrote:
> 
> >I'm pleased to hear of a specifically-Jython book.  
> >
> >As a python programmer interested in accessing java libraries, and
>  as
> >a NON
> >-java programmer I’m “shocked and amazed” at the
> >Byzantine nature of java documentation, and code.
> >
> >Has anyone written a “guide to jython for non-java
> >programmers?”.
> >
> >Or might one of the java bean programming environments offer a
>  good
> >“entry way?”
> >
> >Or  is it hopeless  to suppose that one could learn to use java
> >libraries, frameworks and beans without learning to read and write
> >java?
> >
> >
> >LLewin at oreilly.com (Laura Lewin) wrote in message
> >news:<a05ac97c.0111260514.574593d6 at posting.google.com>...
> >> This is a great list!  You can also add Jython Essentials,
>  O'Reilly,
> >> Samuele Pedroni and Noel Rappin.  The book is due out in March.
> >> Laura
> >> LLewin at oreilly.com
> >> 
> >> > Ron Stephens <rdsteph at earthlink.net> wrote:
> >> > |Truly a surfeit of books. But, for what it is worth, I have
>  listed
>  all I
> >> > |could find out about them all at
>  http://www.awaretek.com/plf.html
> >> >
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