the one python book

[dhr]

newbie question:

Is there a 'K&R" type of Python book? The book that you'd better have on
your shelf if you are going into Python?

[Eric_Dexter]

On Aug 4, 8:23 am, "dhr" <dima.hris...@g mail.comwrote:

newbie question:

Is there a 'K&R" type of Python book? The book that you'd better have on
your shelf if you are going into Python?

I thought Python Essential Reference was helpfull but It doesn't work
that well without another book to go with it.. I used the internet
alot o get examples with the book as a reference..

[Thorsten Kampe]

* dhr (Sat, 4 Aug 2007 16:23:49 +0300)

Is there a 'K&R" type of Python book? The book that you'd better have on
your shelf if you are going into Python?

For Tutorials STFW but the one and only book is definitely "Python in
a Nutshell" from Alex "Python" Martelli. Get the second edition.

The other book I would go for is the "Python Cookbook" from Martelli
and others.

Thorsten

[jehugaleahsa]

On Aug 4, 7:23 am, "dhr" <dima.hris...@g mail.comwrote:

newbie question:

Is there a 'K&R" type of Python book? The book that you'd better have on
your shelf if you are going into Python?

Personally, I have two paths for you to take.

If you are a programmer already, then I would recommend that you buy
Python in a Nutshell. It is actually a very concise book for people
who just want to know what the language provides. I would actually
recommend stopping once you get to the library reference and I would
make sure look into classes. After you done with that day-long read, I
would get your hands on the newest version of "Progamming
Python" (O'Reilly). It has a lot of practical applications for Python
and it is *not* a one-day read. It is enormous and it skips around a
lot. I like it because it is doesn't necessarily stick to one topic so
you pick up a lot of tricks along the way. It gets you started off
learning some sweet c-style OS functions. If you don't know just about
everything about Python by the end of that book, I would be very
surprised.

BTW, almost all of the Nutshell books have been fabulous. They kind of
put it out there for you to suck up like a vacuum. The only failure in
my opinion is the PHP nutshell . . . Since you even know hwo K&R (good
job) is, then I assume you know how to program and are ready to skip
all the crap.

Best of luck,
Travis

[vasudevram]

On Aug 4, 7:23 am, "dhr" <dima.hris...@g mail.comwrote:

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newbie question:

Is there a 'K&R" type of Python book? The book that you'd better have on
your shelf if you are going into Python?

Python in a Nutshell, the Python Cookbook and Programming Python are
all very good, IMO. Programming Python comes with a CD of all the
source code in the book (at least the 2nd edition did, as well as
Python language - this can save you some time keying in the examples.
Of course, many of the O'Reilly books (and all 3 of these are from
O'Reilly) have links to downloadable source code from them. Just
Google for the name of the book, then in the results, hit the
appropriate link to the O'Reilly site for the book, and look down the
page for the link to the examples' source.

Or (for Programming Python):

http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/python2/
http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/python3/

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[Silfheed]

On Aug 4, 6:23 am, "dhr" <dima.hris...@g mail.comwrote:

Assuming that you already know that a ton of great stuff is on the
web, I'd also recommend 'Programming Python' and 'Python Cookbook'.
'The Python Book' would have to be the Python book ('Programming
Python', cuz it has a python on the cover and covers the python
language, brilliant!....) It's huge and is full of great scripts and,
most importantly, promotes good coding style. Hopefully they've
updated the index tho, since the 2nd edition has an utterly pathetic
index, tho you can still find what you want pretty quickly with just
the toc.

Python Cookbook is necessary because it covers so many little hidden
secrets of python. The section on dateutil is worth the price of the
book alone.

[Dick Moores]

At 10:22 AM 8/5/2007, vasudevram wrote:

On Aug 4, 7:23 am, "dhr" <dima.hris...@g mail.comwrote:

newbie question:

Is there a 'K&R" type of Python book? The book that you'd better have on
your shelf if you are going into Python?

Python in a Nutshell, the Python Cookbook and Programming Python are
all very good, IMO. Programming Python comes with a CD of all the
source code in the book (at least the 2nd edition did, as well as
Python language - this can save you some time keying in the examples.
Of course, many of the O'Reilly books (and all 3 of these are from
O'Reilly) have links to downloadable source code from them. Just
Google for the name of the book, then in the results, hit the
appropriate link to the O'Reilly site for the book, and look down the
page for the link to the examples' source.

Or (for Programming Python):

http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/python2/
http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/python3/

No CD with 3rd edition, but here are the examples:
<http://examples.oreill y.com/python3/>

Dick Moores

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