Bjoern Schliessmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Alex Martelli wrote: > > > I do know that the 2nd edition of Python in a Nutshell tries to do > > so, but falls quite a bit short on a number of important new > > additions to the library > > Which, if I may ask?
For example, all I say about ctypes is that it's scheduled to be added to the standard library in Python 2.5, plus the URL to theller's pages on it; it's surely worth at least the 5 pages I devoted to covering Pyrex (considering that the latter is not in the standard library), not just 5 lines:-(. Similarly, ElementTree is essentially just mentioned, not really covered (while it would deserve the 10-12 pages that I instead used to cover minidom), and SQLite gets less than a page (probably enough for elementary use, since the DBAPI _is_ well covered, but 2-3 pages with advanced issues and a relatively long examples would have been better). You could say, for 2.5 coverage, the book is missing about 20 pages it should have -- not all that much, in comparison to the 700 pages it does have, but not ideal (as for the "new compiler stuff" -- modules compiler, parser, symbol, etc -- I'm not even sure how long it would take to do them justice... perhaps another 20-30 pages... but perhaps those subjects are a bit too exoteric to keep expanding the book!-). Alex -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
