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[gsal]

After reading the "which book" threads, looking to the references of
the page aforementioned and reading reviews on the books at
Amazon.com...the two finalists were of course the one from Lutz and
the one from Chun...a couple of comments here and there, tipped the
scale towards Chun's Python Programming from the Core Series...I
really like it!

Sure, the book is huge ( over 1000 pages ) but it is a rather easy
reading (then again I already knew a few other programming languages)
and it covers the kind of details about the language the I enjoy
learning about...origin of things, history/evolution, why something is
done the way it is (performance issues), code snippets here and then a
break down of such code in plain English; at the end of a chapter a
table with a summary of the statements/functions/methods covered,
etc., etc. etc.

Really a great book, I highly recommend it.

gsal