My CTO is learning Python....

Aahz aahz at pythoncraft.com
Sat Mar 1 14:17:55 EST 2003


In article <mailman.1046514724.12510.python-list at python.org>,
Bjorn Pettersen <BPettersen at NAREX.com> wrote:
>
>...time to run screeming from the building <wink>. His problem, is that
>"There doesn't seem to be any good books on Python". Pressed a little
>more, it was refined to "either the documentation assumes you've never
>programmed before, and spends volumes of text introducing loop
>constructs etc." (that was the commentary on the Tutorial <sigh>), "or,
>the author seems to be in love with the language purely for its advanced
>and obscure features" (he'd hoped 'Thinking in Python' would be like the
>C++/Java equivalent...). Pressed a little bit further, he commented:
>"what I'm really looking for is a quick introduction for someone that
>allready knows C++ or Java".

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