New Arrival to Python

[Alessandro Bottoni]

Norm Goertzen wrote:

I can just answer about books:

> -Programming Python, 2nd Edition; Mark Lutz
Quite good. Exhaustive and authoritative. The 1st edition was questionable
but the second one is very fine.

> -Python Standard Library; Fredrik Lundh
Quite a need for a beginner. The HTML docu of Python is huge and a little
bit confusing at first. This book can avoid you a lot of search-and-read
work.

> -Python & XML; Fred L. Drake, Jr., Christopher A. Jones
Required if you plan to work with XML. (there are other books regarding this
topic, anyway)

> -Python Cookbook; Alex Martelli, David Ascher
The most useful book after your first week of real work with python.

> -Learning Python, 2nd Edition; David Ascher, Mark Lutz
Excellent primer. Probably too elementar for a professional programmer.

> -Python Programming on Win32; Mark Hammond, Andy Robinson
Excellent book for Windows users. Exhaustive and clear.

> -Text Processing in Python; David Mertz
Very interesting book on a very common programming task. Read it if you have
time.

> -Python Cookbook, 2nd Edition; David Ascher, Alex Martelli, Anna
> Ravenscroft
I have the 1st edition and it is very fine. The second one can just be
better.

HTH

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Alessandro Bottoni