Suggestion for yet another (O'Reilly) Python book

[Steven Cummings]

Cool idea. I've thought it would be nice to have an O'Reilly "Python Web Services" written by someone who has done all of those articles for developerWorks and XML.com, like Uche. To have it all and much more from the expert-author's knowledge in one coherent book would be very marketable right now I think.

/S

Tim Churches <tchur at optushome.com.au> wrote:

>I recently purchased "Python Cookbook" and have thoroughly enjoyed
>reading it, almost from cover to cover - it makes a great addition to
>"learning Python". I'm eagerly anticipating "Python in a Nutshell".
>However, I own another O'Reilly title which I find equally useful in
>guiding my feeble Python efforts: "Mastering Algorithms with Perl", by
>Jon Orwant, Jarkko Hietaniemi and John Macdonald. Despite the fact that
>it contains Perl code, this is a really superb 650 page introduction to
>computer science algorithms with well-written, concise decriptions of
>problem domains and their solutions: things like data structures (basic
>and advanced), sorting, searching, sets , matrices, graphs, strings,
>geometric algorithms, number systems and number theory, cryptography,
>probability and statistics and numerical analysis.
>
>It strikes me that, if the authors and publisher of this work were
>willing, it might be possible for them to team up with some Python gurus
>and produce a Python version. A complete re-write would certainly not be
>necessary - just substitute Python code for Perl and edit the text where
>it discusses the example code. The text primarily focuses on comp sci
>problems and the principles of their solution, not on the details of the
>provided Perl code, which is why the book is so useful even though my
>eyes glaze over at the sight of the Perl scratchings, err, listings.
>Thus the volume of text which would need to be rewritten is not so
>great. Still not a minor undertaking, but the end result would be worth
>its weight in depleted uranium, I think.
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