Book Recommendations

[beliavsky@aol.com]

elbows at spamcop.net (Nathan Weston) wrote:
>I'm new to Python and am looking for a book to get me up to speed
>quickly. I'm an experienced programmer and very proficient with Ruby,
>so Python is coming easily to me and I don't need a gentle
>introduction -- I just need a quick way to get familiar with common
>Python idioms and important libraries.
>
>I'm also looking for a "gentler" book to help introduce some of my
>co-workers to python. They are also experienced programmers, but
>mostly in C++, with some Java/C# but minimal exposure to scripting
>languages.

I'd recommend Alex Martelli's "Python in a Nutshell" for you and "Learning
Python" by Lutz and Ascher for your colleagues. They are both published by
O'Reilly.



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