On 8 Jan 2007 10:59:23 -0800, "Thomas Nelson" <thn at mail.utexas.edu> wrote: >O'reilly has a book called Programming Python that covers much of the >standard library and how to use it for complex tasks. It may be out of >date by now, though. Programming Python (by Mark Lutz) is now in it's 3rd edition and is quite up to date. Dan