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Can someone kindly recommend some good books on the following:

Python for beginners
Python for advanced users
Is there a bible like Larry Wall's Programming Perl or Bjarne Stroustrup's
The C++ Programming Language?

Nov 28 '07 #1
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On Nov 27, 9:05 pm, "barcarolle r" <barcarol...@mu sic.netwrote:
Can someone kindly recommend some good books on the following:

Python for beginners
Python for advanced users
http://wiki.python.org/moin/PythonBooks
Nov 28 '07 #2
On Nov 27, 10:05 pm, "barcarolle r" <barcarol...@mu sic.netwrote:
Can someone kindly recommend some good books on the following:

Python for beginners
Python for advanced users

Is there a bible like Larry Wall's Programming Perl or Bjarne Stroustrup's
The C++ Programming Language?
Python in a Nutshell is a very good reference.
Nov 28 '07 #3
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On Nov 27, 10:05 pm, "barcarolle r" <barcarol...@mu sic.netwrote:
Can someone kindly recommend some good books on the following:

Python for beginners
Python for advanced users

Is there a bible like Larry Wall's Programming Perl or Bjarne Stroustrup's
The C++ Programming Language?

Python in a Nutshell is a very good reference.
I second that. I also found Learning Python (Lutz & Ascher, O'Reilly
pub.) to be helpful when I first started, but Nutshell is what I keep
going back to. Very good book.

--
-- Lou Pecora
Nov 28 '07 #4
On Nov 27, 9:05 pm, "barcarolle r" <barcarol...@mu sic.netwrote:
Can someone kindly recommend some good books on the following:

Python for beginners
Python for advanced users

Is there a bible like Larry Wall's Programming Perl or Bjarne Stroustrup's
The C++ Programming Language?
For good techniques and advanced knowledge, it's hard to beat Lutz's
tome: "Programmin g Python 3rd Ed." or Chun's "Core Python
Programming". Both are huge. Lutz's is a little bit more approachable
and had more extensive code examples, but I learned a lot about
Python's insides from Chun.

The cookbooks are handy too, but if you troll ActiveState already, you
may not need those.

Mike
Nov 28 '07 #5
I've read "Begining Python" written by Hetland from Apress. I enjoyed
it a lot. I also liked reading "Dive into Python" (also from Apress)
for those who already know a language. A free edition is at
diveintopython. org.
Nov 29 '07 #6

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