Getting started

[holger krekel]

Lance wrote:
> Hi All,
> 
> Last night I attended a Weak typing, C++ Templates, and Python talk by Bruce
> Eckel. It was great, my introduction to Python.
> 
> I'm sold on Python and weak typing. 

I am not. But i much prefer dynamic over static typing :-)
What is 'weak typing' supposed to mean, anyway?  I have heard that a couple
of times from java-people because they tend to think that python
is not strongly typed.

> Would you be able to suggest an indispensable learning Python book?

David Beazley wrote "Python essential reference" which is a very good
book for programmers. It doesn't cover the most recent developments
but it still is one of the best IMO.

    holger