win32 docu?

[Alex Martelli]

"Dennis Lee Bieber" <wlfraed at ix.netcom.com> wrote in message
news:5g4uos4udelstgk07vh8df0ffmst3pcoqq at 4ax.com...
> On Mon, 07 Aug 2000 14:41:43 +0200, Thomas Thiele
> <thiele at muc.das-werk.de> declaimed the following in comp.lang.python:
>
> > I found them of course. But I was looking for a discription(!) of the
> > functions and not only a prototype of them.....
> > I have no book about win32 extensions and how to use and so I need a
> > better descriptionabout win32 modules and it's possibilities. I
> > don'twant to ask the newsgroup for every small problem.....
> >
> Welcome to the world of M$... where not only time, but
> documentation, is $$$

I'm not sure what you mean.  msdn.microsoft.com has (literally)
gigabytes of information freely accessible online, with search
engines, structured TOC, etc, etc.  It includes lots of freely
readable articles from magazines, partial books, even entire
books.  The only '$$$' you pay are to your ISP or phone
company, just as for any other online information access.

How is any other 'world' different?  Sure, there are also books
you can purchase, e.g. from O'Reilly (Hammond's book on
Python with Win32), if you find it preferable -- are "non-M$"
``worlds'' different, does O'Reilly give away those books for
free rather than for '$$$'?

Microsoft has its (serious!) defects, but such unfounded and
baseless digs/implications/insinuations are a dis-service to all.


Alex