Best book on Python?

[Michael McGarry]

Adil Hasan wrote:
>  hello,
>         Just my 2 farthings worth...
>  Although Python and Tkinter is a good book it was written at the time of
>  Python 1.5 (so there may be some transformation that needs to be done
>  on some of the examples) you may want to take a look at Python in 
>  a Nutshell by A. Martelli published by O'Reilly. It has a section on
>  Tkinter and many other things that you may find useful.
>  ah
> 
> On Mon, 13 Dec 2004, Rod Haper wrote:
> 
> 
>>Michael McGarry wrote:
>>
>>>I have many years of programming experience and know a little bit of 
>>>Tcl. I am looking for a book to detail on the features including GUI in 
>>>a reference style.
>>
>>Given that you have some acquaintance with Tcl, if you want a reference 
>>that caters toward GUI programming in Python using Tk, you might find 
>>this book of interest: "Python and Tkinter Programming" by John Grayson. 
>>  Manning Publications, 2000, 658p
>>
>>-- 
>>Rod
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>>http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
>>
> 
> 
Thanks, in terms of GUI programming I am leaning towards Qt, since I can 
use this stuff in C++ as well. There is also a program called Qt 
designer that makes GUI design a drag and drop process.

Michael