Book Recomendations

[Micah Cowan]

Ira Solomon <isolomon at solomonltd.com> writes:

> I am an experienced programmer (40 years).  I've done Algol (if you've
> heard of that you must be old too), PL/1, VB,VBA, a little C, and a
> few other odd languages (e.g. Taskmate).
> I'm interested in learning Python and have downloaded a slew of books.
> Too many.
> I'd like a recommendation as to which books are considered to be the
> cream of the crop.
> I know there are tutorials on the web, but, again, I don't know the
> quality.  I would appreciate recommendations on those as well.

I have found the official documentation available at python.org
(including both the tutorial and references) to be very
high-quality.

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Micah J. Cowan
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