As far as not-writing work goes, I'm currently the CTO of a fintech startup, which has severely limited the time I've had for writing. If the company doesn't succeed there has to be a book in that! S
Steve Holden On Mon, Oct 10, 2016 at 9:23 PM, Steve Holden <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Doug, > > My experience is that there aren't a huge number of changes tot he > standard library (and no new modules yet). I don't think you will lose a > lot of audience with your decisions. > > S > > Steve Holden > > On Mon, Oct 10, 2016 at 7:10 PM, Doug Hellmann <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> >> 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]> >> 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 | jugad2.blogspot.com | vasudevram.github.io >>> >>> FlyWheel - Managed WordPress Hosting: - http://share.getf.ly/p35s5a >>> >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Python-authors mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-authors >> >> >
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