[Tutor] books

Mon, 24 Dec 2001 17:10:29 -0000

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>  I am a newbie programmer learning Python. I live in Eastern Europe  
>  and no books on Python are available in English.  

Do Amazon not operate in Eastern Europe? They can provide most 
books most anywhere... It takes a few weeks but even including 
postage it usually works out no more than buying in a high 
street bookshop - often less!

I am definitely getting:

Progamming Python by Mark Lutz

Learning Python by  Mark Lutz 

Both good books.

Python Pocket reference by Mark Lutz 

This is now seriously out of date and less useful.

Get

 Python Essential reference by David Beazley  

this instead. Its the best reference book on Python 
at the moment IMHO.

Python and XML by Christopher Jones

XML processing with Perl,Python, and PHP by Martin Brown 

I can't comment on these... 

Python standard library by Lundh 

Similar to Beazley in some ways but more cookbook style. 
Personally I just search google news archive... 

Lundh is a fount of knowlege but in do wish he'd 
completed and published his Tkinter stuff instead 
of this one... We are still crying out for a decent 
intro to Tkinter in book form, Grayson not 
withstanding.

Alan g.
Author of the 'Learning to Program' web site
http://www.freenetpages.co.uk/hp/alan.gauld
<http://www.freenetpages.co.uk/hp/alan.gauld>

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<DIV>&gt; &nbsp;I am a newbie programmer learning Python. I live 
in Eastern Europe&nbsp;&nbsp;</DIV>
<DIV>&gt; &nbsp;and no books on Python are available in 
English.&nbsp;&nbsp;</DIV>
<DIV>&nbsp;</DIV>
<DIV>Do Amazon not operate in Eastern Europe? They can provide most 
</DIV>
<DIV>books most anywhere... It takes a few weeks but even including 
</DIV>
<DIV>postage it usually works out no more than buying in a high 
</DIV>
<DIV>street bookshop - often less!</DIV>
<DIV>&nbsp;</DIV>
<DIV>I am definitely getting:</DIV>
<BLOCKQUOTE 
style="PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: #0000ff 2px solid">
 Progamming Python by Mark Lutz
 Learning Python by&nbsp;&nbsp;Mark Lutz&nbsp;</BLOCKQUOTE>
Both good books.
<BLOCKQUOTE 
style="PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: #0000ff 2px solid">
 Python Pocket reference by Mark Lutz&nbsp;</BLOCKQUOTE>
This is now seriously out of date and less useful.
Get
<BLOCKQUOTE 
style="PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: #0000ff 2px solid">
 &nbsp;Python Essential reference by 
 David Beazley&nbsp;&nbsp;</BLOCKQUOTE>
this instead. Its the best reference book on Python 
 at the moment IMHO.
<BLOCKQUOTE 
style="PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: #0000ff 2px solid">
 Python and XML by Christopher Jones
 XML processing with Perl,Python, and PHP by Martin Brown&nbsp;</BLOCKQUOTE>
I&nbsp;can't comment on these...&nbsp;
<BLOCKQUOTE 
style="PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: #0000ff 2px solid">
 Python standard library by Lundh&nbsp;</BLOCKQUOTE>
Similar to Beazley in some ways but more cookbook style. 
 Personally I just search google news 
archive...&nbsp;
Lundh is a fount of knowlege but in do wish he'd completed 
and published his Tkinter stuff instead of this 
one... We are still crying out for a decent intro to 
Tkinter in book form, Grayson not withstanding.
Alan g. Author of the 'Learning to Program' web 
site <A target=_blank 
href="http://www.freenetpages.co.uk/hp/alan.gauld">http://www.freenetpages.co.uk/hp/alan.gauld</A> 

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