up to date books?

[Paul Dale]

I highly recommend the "Safari" library service from Oreilly ( 
http://safari.oreilly.com ) you can check out all of the books listed 
below and about 10,000 more. The library contains much more than just 
Oreilly's books, but they are, of course, all in there.

The first 2 weeks is free after that it's $20/month. You can check out 
10 books at a time and you have to keep them for a month. You can 
download chapters, print pages, and search all the books in the library, 
as well as search across books you've checked out.

It's a great way to get access to a broad range of technical books.

One thing to be careful of. As the old books are there too it's possible 
to grab a first version when you might want a second or third version. 
Always list by date and make sure you're looking at the new stuff.

Cheers,

Paul

Adriaan Renting wrote:

>I learned Python from the "Learning Python" book that's first on Alessandros list. If you have the Second Edition, that includes coverage for Python 2.3, I think you have quite a nice introductory book.
>As a reference book "Python in a Nutshell" and of course the Python documentation itself are quite good.
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>Adriaan
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>>>>Alessandro Bottoni <alessandro.bottoni at infinito.it> 08/18/05 9:02 am >>> 
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>John Salerno wrote: 
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>>hi all. are there any recommendations for an intro book to python that 
>>is up-to-date for the latest version? 
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>I do not know how much up-to-date they are but I have to suggest you these 
>books: 
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>- Learning Python 
>By Mark Lutz and David Ascher 
>published by O'Reilly 
>Most likely the best introductory book on Python 
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>- Python Cookbook 
>By Alex Martelli and David Ascher 
>published by O'Reilly 
>By far the most useful book on Python after your first week of real use of 
>this language 
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>Also, the fundamental 
>- Programming Python (the 2nd edition ONLY) 
>By Mark Lutz 
>published by O'Reilly 
>Is very useful for understanding the most inner details of Python 
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>>would reading a book from a year or two ago cause me to miss much? 
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>No. Python did not changed too much since rel. 1.5. You can still use a book 
>published in 2001 as a introductory book (as I do). The changes are 
>exhaustively described both in the official documentation and in the very 
>fine "what's new in..." articles written by Andrew Kuchlin for every new 
>release (see www.python.org). 
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>CU 
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>Alessandro Bottoni 
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