"Chris Angelico" <ros...@gmail.com> wrote in message
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On Wed, Jan 30, 2013 at 1:55 PM, Daniel W. Rouse Jr.
<dwrousejr@nethere.comnospam> wrote:
I am currently using "Learning Python" by Mark Lutz and David Ascher,
published by O'Reilly (ISBN 1-56592-464-9)--but I find the explanations
insufficient and the number of examples to be sparse. I do understand
some
ANSI C programming in addition to Python (and the book often wanders off
into a comparison of C and Python in its numerous footnotes), but I need
a
better real-world example of how tuples and dictionaries are being used
in
actual Python code.
Have you checked out the online documentation at
http://docs.python.org/ ? That might have what you're looking for.
I'll check the online documentation but I was really seeking a book
recommendation or other offline resource. I am not always online, and often
times when I code I prefer local machine documentation or a book. I do also
have the .chm format help file in the Windows version of Python.
By the way, you may want to consider learning and using Python 3.3
instead of the older branch 2.7; new features are only being added to
the 3.x branch now, with 2.7 getting bugfixes and such for a couple of
years, but ultimately it's not going anywhere. Obviously if you're
supporting existing code, you'll need to learn the language that it
was written in, but if this is all new code, go with the recent
version.
Honestly, I don't know what code is being supported. I've just seen enough
test automation requirements calling for Python (in addition to C# and perl)
in some of the latest job listings that I figured I better get some working
knowledge of Python to avoid becoming obsolete should I ever need to find
another job.
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