Book "Programming on Win32" still useful?

[drs]

"Piet" <pit.grinja at gmx.de> wrote in message
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> Hi all,
> I started programming (or hacking) python some time ago. Since python
> offers a lot of Win32 specific extensions and since my OS will
> probably stay Win2k for the next time, I would like to know the
> possibilities of Win32 programming with python a little better. In
> this context I stumbled over the book mentioned in the title, which
> really looks like what I´ve been looking for, but I am a little afraid
> because it was published 4 years ago and covers only python 1.52. Both
> Python and the Win32 interface have been continuously developped, and
> I don´t know whether the things I can learn from this book are still
> useful today. Can somebody give me some advice whether this book is
> 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.

-d