Good book on Python?

[Gabe Newcomb]

I don't know if it's already been mentioned, but Learning Python by Lutz
& Ascher is great. If you get that and the Python Essential Reference,
you'll have all you need to get started.

If you do any work on Windows, I also heartily recommend Python
Programming on Win32 by Mark Hammond. It makes some wierd choices about
which topics to address (not enough sysadmin stuff for my taste), but it
covers a lot of useful stuff, and does it well.

Enjoy!!

Gabe Newcomb

-----Original Message-----
From: William Sonna [mailto:wlsonna at attglobal.net]
Sent: Thursday, March 14, 2002 4:46 PM
To: python-list at python.org
Subject: Re: Good book on Python?


On Thu, 14 Mar 2002 11:26:01, Antonis C Koutalos <ack at ee.ed.ac.uk> 
wrote:

> 
> Hi there,
>  I would greatly appreciate information about a good book on python. I
> have been programming C for a few years, but I know next to nothing
about
> python. Therefore, I would appreciate a book that describes the basics
of
> python as well as the more advanced features of the language.
> 
> Thank you in advance!
> 
> -A.
> 

The Quick Python Book by Harms/McDonald is an excellent book if you 
want to get up to speed in a hurry.

The best way I can think of to describe it is as a "Cliff Notes" for 
Python.  Very terse and well-organized (and consequently VERY easy to 
browse) - just like Python itself.  The book has saved me many, many 
hours.

It focuses primarily on the base language - you won't find much about 
the more advanced packages, other than a terse, well-organized summary
of several of them (and information about where to get more info).

If there was a "Quick Java Book" or a "Quick C++ Book" I'd buy them in
a heartbeat.

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