Python Book

[Stuart McGraw]

David Beasley's Essential Python (New Riders).  It's a little dated
now (covers only up to version 2.2) but lucid, consise, well organized.
It restricts itself to Python's syntax and semantics and does not waste
time explaining basic programming concepts.

I made several attempts to learn Python but found the Python docs
pretty poor, and the tutorial books I looked at were incredibly ponderous 
and slow.  It wasn't until I got Beasley's book that I could actual find 
info effectively enough to start actually writing Python code.  I still most
often refer to it in preference to the Python docs.

"David Rasmussen" <david.rasmussen at gmx.net> wrote in message news:43779016$0$2111$edfadb0f at dtext02.news.tele.dk...
> What is the best book for Python newbies (seasoned programmer in other 
> languages)?
> 
> /David