New to Python

[Lou Pecora]

In article <1173704503.459048.310560 at t69g2000cwt.googlegroups.com>,
 "Dustan" <DustanGroups at gmail.com> wrote:

> > What is the best way to get documentation about the functions
> > and classes of python? I tried to google, but usually I can just
> > find the __doc__ of the objects, without examples or anything that
> > can help me use it.
> >
> > Alberto Monteiro
> 
> Refer to this as a reference:
> http://docs.python.org/
> 
> It includes a tutorial and documentation on the functions and classes
> in all the global modules, as well as builtin functions (http://
> docs.python.org/lib/built-in-funcs.html) and syntax. If you have prior
> experience with programming, you may be able to learn python from the
> tutorial, but otherwise, I would highly recommend you get a good book
> for beginners on python (http://wiki.python.org/moin/PythonBooks);
> there's plenty of them out there.


Python in a Nutshell by Martelli (O'Reilly publ.) is very good.  

I also liked Learning Python by Lutz and Ascher (O'Reilly publ.) when I 
started Python, but I don't know if that's been updated recently.

-- Lou Pecora  (my views are my own) REMOVE THIS to email me.