Book: "Learning Python" Is it still a good reference for a Python Beginner?

[Alex Martelli]

On Sunday 21 July 2002 10:33 pm, David LeBlanc wrote:
> <snip>
>
> > I do hope Ascher and Lundh find the time to update "Learning" to
> > 2.2 very soon, of course.  But if they don't, it's still a good
> > book indeed.  There are other good books, but "Learning" is still
> > my first recommendation to a programmer experienced in other
> > languages who wants to get started with Python on the right foot.
> >
> > (Bias warning: working with David on the Python Cookbook has made
> > us friends -- but I liked Learning Python even before then!-).
> >
> >
> > Alex
>
> You know, I have a book called "Learning Python" (O'Reilly & Associates;
> ISBN: 1565924649; (April 9, 1999)), but this version is written by Mark
> Lutz, David Ascher and Frank Willison (Ed.) - is the Ascher/Lundh book a
> different version?

Sorry!  I did mean Lutz -- "Lundh" was a Freudian slip here, no doubt.


Alex