ANN: Dive Into Python chapter 3 released

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"Dive Into Python" (http://diveintopython.org/) is a free Python tutorial for
experienced programmers.  You can read the book online or download it in a
variety of formats.

Chapter 3 (http://diveintopython.org/fileinfo_divein.html) is finally
complete.  It covers all of these concepts:
- defining, subclassing, and instantiating Python classes
- special class methods
- data attributes and class attributes
- exception handling
- basic file management (opening, reading files)
- writing cross-platform libraries by encapsulating platform differences
(like
the getpass, os modules)
- assigning multiple values at once

If you're one of the 5,000 people who have already downloaded "Dive Into
Python", come back and see what's new:
- All examples are now color-coded.
- Each section now has "further reading" links to relevant sections of other
free resources, including the Python library reference, Python language
reference, Python tutorial, Python Knowledge Base, and other free Python
books available online.
- Chapter 2 now uses the getattr function instead of eval -- a much more
elegant solution suggested by an articulate reader.
(http://diveintopython.org/apihelper_getattr.html)
- Text edited, confusions clarified, bugs fixed. :)

-M
--
Mark Pilgrim, f8dy at diveintopython.org
You're smart; why haven't you learned Python yet?  http://diveintopython.org/


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