[Tutor] yet another book review request

[Sean 'Shaleh' Perry]

On Wednesday 28 August 2002 20:03, Erik Price wrote:
>
> Thanks, Sean.  I was worried that it might teach some things that are
> no longer used in the newer version of Python but it seems like a
> "must-read" nonetheless.  Interesting that it is not really like
> "Programming Perl", which is pretty well-known but doesn't take a
> "tutorial" approach at all (it's more of a reference).
>

You are correct.  "Programming Python" actually teaches you the language =
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leaves the official Python docs to document the order of string.join().  =
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people dislike the book because of this.  I learned fairly early in my py=
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programming to love the official docs so I never saw the style of the boo=
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a failing.  To each their own.