Book "Programming on Win32" still useful?

[John J. Lee]

"drs" <drs at remove-to-send-mail-ecpsoftware.com> writes:

> "Piet" <pit.grinja at gmx.de> wrote in message
> news:39cbe663.0404192259.3e105972 at posting.google.com...
[...]
> > still a good buy? I think it will surely be enough to get the basics,
> > but what if I want more?
> 
> It is still very useful.  While Python has changed, the parts that are
> covered in the book have not changed that much.  Further, aside from .NET,
> win32 is about the same -- particularly since you are using the version of
> windows that was current when the book was published.

New stuff not in the book: ctypes is very much worth looking at;
IronPython and other .NET efforts are worth keeping an eye on, at
least.


John