On Wed, Jan 30, 2013 at 2:42 PM, Daniel W. Rouse Jr. <dwrousejr@nethere.comnospam> wrote: > "Chris Angelico" <ros...@gmail.com> wrote in message > news:mailman.1197.1359515470.2939.python-l...@python.org... >> 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.
Ah. I think the tutorial's in the chm file, but I'm not certain. But for actual books, I can't point to any; I learned from online info only, never actually sought a book (in fact, the last time I used dead-tree reference books was for C and C++). Sorry! >> By the way, you may want to consider learning and using Python 3.3 >> instead of the older branch 2.7... >> > 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. A fair point. In that case, it's probably worth learning both; they're very similar. Learn either one first, then master the differences. ChrisA -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
