Book Recomendations

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I wonder why nobody mension Python Cookbook yet.
http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/pythoncook2/
Web version: http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/Cookbook/Python/

and Python Standard Library
http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/pythonsl/
http://effbot.org/zone/librarybook-index.htm

On Sun, Mar 2, 2008 at 4:09 PM, Paddy <paddy3118 at googlemail.com> wrote:
> On Mar 2, 12:56 am, Ira Solomon <isolo... at solomonltd.com> wrote:
>  > 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.
>  >
>  > Thanks
>  >
>  > Ira
>
>  Hi Ira,
>  Get Python installed on your machine - I would suggest the latest 2.5
>  release then either start up idle (or pythonwin if you have that on
>  windows), or just type python at a command line prompt to get you to
>  pythons shell.
>
>  The Python shell together with the official tutorial is a great way to
>  learn Python.
>
>  If you start to flag, then their are a few videos of pre-teen kids
>  learning Python here:
>  http://showmedo.com/videos/python?topic=beginner_programming
>  If they can learn it .... ;-)
>
>  Welcome to Python, have fun!
>
>  - Paddy.
>
>
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