Love "Python Cookbook"

[dougfort]

On Wed, 02 October 2002, Alex Martelli wrote:

> 
> Gumuz wrote:
> 
> > is this a printed version of the Activestate Python Cookbook or is this
> > something different?
> 
> It's a _vastly edited_ printed version of recipes from the online
> Cookbook, with corrections and updates to the programs, much added
> discussion, many additional recipes, AND fourteen chapter intros by
> thirteen different authors (Tim Peters did two chapter intros).  I
> think the printed version (or the online one on Safari -- same thing,
> though I personally prefer paper) has substantial added value wrt
> the online one... or I wouldn't have spent about 9 months of my life
> as a co-editor helping to make it happen (I'd have been content to
> be among the most prolific contributors of recipes to the online one:-).
> 
> We had to set a cut-off date to get recipes from the online site
> for the book, and of course the site has accumulated many more
> recipes since (even though I didn't contribute any more there as
> I was too busy with co-editing &c:-).  Thus, both the book and
> the site can be now considered to be "added value" wrt each other
> in different ways:-).
> 
> 
> Alex
> 

You could actually leave out the code, change the title to 'The Python
Philosophy' and still have a really valuable book.

Doug Fort <dougfort at dougfort.net>
http://www.dougfort.net