Book "Programming on Win32" still useful?

Hi all,
I started programming (or hacking) python some time ago. Since python
offers a lot of Win32 specific extensions and since my OS will
probably stay Win2k for the next time, I would like to know the
possibilities of Win32 programming with python a little better. In
this context I stumbled over the book mentioned in the title, which
really looks like what I´ve been looking for, but I am a little afraid
because it was published 4 years ago and covers only python 1.52. Both
Python and the Win32 interface have been continuously developped, and
I don´t know whether the things I can learn from this book are still
useful today. Can somebody give me some advice whether this book is
still a good buy? I think it will surely be enough to get the basics,
but what if I want more?
Best regards
Peter

re: Book "Programming on Win32" still useful?

"Piet" <pit.grinja@gmx.de> wrote in message
news:39cbe663.0404192259.3e105972@posting.google.c om...[color=blue]
> Hi all,
> I started programming (or hacking) python some time ago. Since python
> offers a lot of Win32 specific extensions and since my OS will
> probably stay Win2k for the next time, I would like to know the
> possibilities of Win32 programming with python a little better. In
> this context I stumbled over the book mentioned in the title, which
> really looks like what I´ve been looking for, but I am a little afraid
> because it was published 4 years ago and covers only python 1.52. Both
> Python and the Win32 interface have been continuously developped, and
> I don´t know whether the things I can learn from this book are still
> useful today. Can somebody give me some advice whether this book is
> still a good buy? I think it will surely be enough to get the basics,
> but what if I want more?[/color]

It is still very useful. While Python has changed, the parts that are
covered in the book have not changed that much. Further, aside from .NET,
win32 is about the same -- particularly since you are using the version of
windows that was current when the book was published.

-d

re: Book "Programming on Win32" still useful?

"drs" <drs@remove-to-send-mail-ecpsoftware.com> writes:
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> "Piet" <pit.grinja@gmx.de> wrote in message
> news:39cbe663.0404192259.3e105972@posting.google.c om...[/color]
[...][color=blue][color=green]
> > still a good buy? I think it will surely be enough to get the basics,
> > but what if I want more?[/color]
>
> It is still very useful. While Python has changed, the parts that are
> covered in the book have not changed that much. Further, aside from .NET,
> win32 is about the same -- particularly since you are using the version of
> windows that was current when the book was published.[/color]

New stuff not in the book: ctypes is very much worth looking at;
IronPython and other .NET efforts are worth keeping an eye on, at
least.


John