Dive into Python was not bad though... On Sat, Jun 20, 2009 at 11:07 AM, John Macdonald <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Sat, Jun 20, 2009 at 01:10:21AM -0400, Steve Scaffidi wrote: > > I actually *do* own a copy of Programming Python which I'd be *happy* to > > sacrifice, um, *offer* for this worthy cause! > > > > That book weighs a ton, and it was next to useless to me when I learned > and > > worked with Python last year. > > I concur. After using Programming Perl for so long and finding > it extremely effective, I was very disappointed in Programming > Python. Somewhere in the first 50 or so pages, I noticed a > comment saying something like "this book is not intended to be > a reference manual" - unfortunately, from my experience with the > camel, that is exactly what I had expected it to be when I got > the book. (The camel includes a full reference manual, but > augments that with expository info that tripes the size in a useful > way. The python is even larger but missing that essential core > ingredient.) > > _______________________________________________ > Boston-pm mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/boston-pm > _______________________________________________ Boston-pm mailing list [email protected] http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/boston-pm
