> On Oct 10, 2016, at 12:19 PM, Steve Holden <[email protected]> wrote: > > Maybe we could encouraging some swapping of war stories, under "frieNDA". > > I can mention that I have an authoring project on the go - with Alex Martelli > and Anna Ravenscroft I am working on the 3rd Edition of "Python in a > Nutshell." I spent this weekend taking the "What's New in Python 3.6" > documentation apart and analysing the changes so that we could be sure that > the book will be as up to date as possible when it's published early next > year.
I’m working on updating “The Python Standard Library by Example” to work with Python 3.5. I haven’t tested any of my examples to make sure they still work with 3.6, and I’m close enough to my deadline that I don’t think I want to try it for now. Unless someone thinks there’s a critical new module in that version? > > O'Reilly wanted to have the book out for Christmas, and I fought hard to > delay it, on the grounds that the publication timetable would be too rushed > to submit before Christmas, product quality would have suffered and we > wouldn't have been able to be definitive on 3.6. The first and only other > time I wrote a major work (Python Web Programming, published in 2002) I was a > brand new author, and tended to defer too easily to the publisher. But now I > hope I have learned how to make an argument to them in business terms. > > So, having tried to get the party started, what's everyone else working on? > > regards > Steve > > Steve Holden > > On Mon, Oct 10, 2016 at 3:57 PM, Vasudev Ram <[email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: > Steve Holden wrote: > > >But if nobody has the time to perform the resultant tasks, the list would > >probably be better fading away. > > What would be those resultant tasks? IIRC it's quite a while since I > saw any emails from this list, so I don't remember what kinds of > emails there may have been, earlier, of the type you refer to. Was it > something like other authors on this list being able to help out > anyone posting questions as a first-time author, with some advice? > > (I was earlier going to say maybe close the list, but it seems like a > pity to let the effort of starting it go waste). > > But, sort of agreeing now with Steve's and Mike Driscoll's suggestion > that it be kept open, and just see if anything happens - i.e. if there > will be any activity on it and if it turns out to be useful to people. > That still doesn't solve how new people will get to know of it, > though. Maybe it could be mentioned somewhere on the Python Wiki, if > that is not already done? > And/or a post once in a while on the PSF blog? > > My 2c. > > -- > Vasudev Ram > - gumroad.com/vasudevram <http://gumroad.com/vasudevram> | > jugad2.blogspot.com <http://jugad2.blogspot.com/> | vasudevram.github.io > <http://vasudevram.github.io/> > > FlyWheel - Managed WordPress Hosting: - http://share.getf.ly/p35s5a > <http://share.getf.ly/p35s5a> >
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