Book Recommendation

[Eddie Corns]

Anthony <sysfault at secureb0x.net> writes:

>Hello I'm currently trying to read Core Python Programming, but by the
>looks of it im never going to get done the book is about 860 pages long
>real intimidating, but im guess im going to have to stick in there. have
>any of you ever read it? is it a good book? if not what do you suggest i
>read. Please help me i'm eager to learn :)

I think CPP is a very good book (apart from being dated).  As someone who had
already done programming I found I just whizzed through it.  Each chapter
easily explained how each of the things I knew how to do would be done in
Python and in the right order to build on.  I read most of the chapters in 2
days (skipped regexs and classes IIRC on the first pass).  Then I went and
started applying it with the book at hand.

Eddie