Love "Python Cookbook"

[robin at execulink.com]

mgarcia at cole-switches.com (Manuel M. Garcia) wrote:

>I imagine from now on all people learning Python will buy "Python
>Cookbook" as one of their first Python books, and little mistakes can
>be very confusing to newbies.

I should note that this is not much like a usual Cookbook, which
offers quick "do things this way" recipes to follow, almost blindly.
Instead it offers deep discussions of various approaches and uses
state-of-the-art techniques (eg: list comprehensions) that may not be
at all obvious to newcomers.

I would recommend something like Learning Python as a first book. But
then Python Cookbook is the second book to get, or the first for those
who have been with the language a while.

>The book is uniformly fantastic, congratulations to the authors!

It is indeed that -- I am sure it will be a long time before I have
exhausted it. As someone whose recipes were accepted for publication I
can only say that, given all the changes and enhancements, the editors
were generous in their credits.

-- robin