[orm-devel] Python book recommendation?
Werner F. Bruhin
orm-devel@mailman.tux4web.de
Wed, 05 Mar 2003 18:52:11 +0100
Mathieu and Ross,
Thanks for the book tips.
See you
Werner
Ross J. Reedstrom wrote:
>On Tue, Mar 04, 2003 at 01:48:02PM -0700, Mathieu Fenniak wrote:
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>>On Tuesday, March 4, 2003, at 09:51 AM, Werner F. Bruhin wrote:
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>>>TRYING to do this Firebird adapter shows that I need a better grasp of
>>>Python and OO.
>>>
>>>Any recommendations for a good Python book would be appreciated.
>>>
>>>
>>I picked up O'Reilly's Python Cookbook on the weekend. It is targetted
>>towards people who know Python already. I wasn't sure I would get much
>>out of it, but I thought my bookshelf looked bad without a single
>>Python book. I've found many interesting tidbits of information in the
>>Python Cookbook which I've never picked up anywhere else, especially
>>with regard to new features in Python 2.2.
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>+1 on the Python Cookbook: I can never have too many examples. O'Reilly's
>Programming Python is pretty good, too. I'd not recommend 'Learning Python'
>unless what you're really doing is learning to program, using python.
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>>I also recommend reading documents on Python.org such as the 'What's
>>New in Python 2.2' (http://python.org/doc/2.2.1/whatsnew/), and various
>>PEPs (http://python.org/peps), as they will occasionally reveal secrets
>>which don't seem to be part of the main documentation package.
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>Yup, can't beat the docs for what's really supposed to happen.
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>Ross
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