I'm working on finishing up a wxPython Cookbook that my blog readers have requested me to do for a number of years. That should be done and published sometime in November or early December. Then I'll be moving on to one on mobile applications, assuming I can figure that out in a timely manner.
Mike ----------------- Mike Driscoll Blog: http://blog.pythonlibrary.org Books: Python 101 <https://gum.co/py101>, Python 201: Intermediate Python <https://gum.co/py201> On Mon, Oct 10, 2016 at 3:27 PM, Steve Holden <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 >>> >>> >> > > _______________________________________________ > Python-authors mailing list > [email protected] > https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-authors > >
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