Re: ANN: New Book: Programming in Python 3

2008-12-20 Thread Mark Summerfield
On 20 Dec, 00:32, Colin J. Williams c...@ncf.ca wrote: Thomas Heller wrote: Mark Summerfield schrieb: Just a follow-up to say that the book has now been published in the U.S. It is now in stock at InformIT, and should reach other stores, e.g., Amazon, in a week or so. Also, the

Re: ANN: New Book: Programming in Python 3

2008-12-20 Thread Steve Holden
Mark Summerfield wrote: [...] With two dozen postings on my use of English I'm now rather nervous about the feeback I'll get on my Python 3! There is no such thing as bad publicity. Quick, make a blog post about how there have been over twenty comments about your use of English (though don't

Re: ANN: New Book: Programming in Python 3

2008-12-20 Thread Jim
I too will be interested in seeing the book. Nothing wrong with Lout -- and you can choose what suits you best, of course -- but just a couple of comments on the alternative. On Dec 19, 5:21 pm, Mark Summerfield l...@qtrac.plus.com wrote: : - I can't draw but I can tell lout to draw for me

Re: ANN: New Book: Programming in Python 3

2008-12-19 Thread Mark Summerfield
Just a follow-up to say that the book has now been published in the U.S. It is now in stock at InformIT, and should reach other stores, e.g., Amazon, in a week or so. Also, the introduction, the first few pages of the first chapter, the whole of chapter 12 (regular expressions), and the index are

Re: ANN: New Book: Programming in Python 3

2008-12-19 Thread Thomas Heller
Mark Summerfield schrieb: Just a follow-up to say that the book has now been published in the U.S. It is now in stock at InformIT, and should reach other stores, e.g., Amazon, in a week or so. Also, the introduction, the first few pages of the first chapter, the whole of chapter 12

Re: ANN: New Book: Programming in Python 3

2008-12-19 Thread MRAB
Thomas Heller wrote: Mark Summerfield schrieb: Just a follow-up to say that the book has now been published in the U.S. It is now in stock at InformIT, and should reach other stores, e.g., Amazon, in a week or so. Also, the introduction, the first few pages of the first chapter, the whole of

Re: ANN: New Book: Programming in Python 3

2008-12-19 Thread Steve Holden
Thomas Heller wrote: Mark Summerfield schrieb: Just a follow-up to say that the book has now been published in the U.S. It is now in stock at InformIT, and should reach other stores, e.g., Amazon, in a week or so. Also, the introduction, the first few pages of the first chapter, the whole

Re: ANN: New Book: Programming in Python 3

2008-12-19 Thread Stefan Behnel
Thomas Heller wrote: Mark Summerfield schrieb: Just a follow-up to say that the book has now been published in the U.S. It is now in stock at InformIT, and should reach other stores, e.g., Amazon, in a week or so. Also, the introduction, the first few pages of the first chapter, the whole

Re: ANN: New Book: Programming in Python 3

2008-12-19 Thread Thomas Heller
Steve Holden schrieb: Thomas Heller wrote: Question from a non-native english speaker: is this now valid english? One of Python’s great strengths ^ and also teaches Python’s functional programming features ^ The book’s approach is wholly

Re: ANN: New Book: Programming in Python 3

2008-12-19 Thread Paul Rudin
Thomas Heller thel...@python.net writes: Steve Holden schrieb: Thomas Heller wrote: Question from a non-native english speaker: is this now valid english? One of Python’s great strengths ^ and also teaches Python’s functional programming features

Re: ANN: New Book: Programming in Python 3

2008-12-19 Thread Benjamin Kaplan
On Fri, Dec 19, 2008 at 12:53 PM, Thomas Heller thel...@python.net wrote: Steve Holden schrieb: Thomas Heller wrote: Question from a non-native english speaker: is this now valid english? One of Python's great strengths ^ and also teaches Python's functional

Re: ANN: New Book: Programming in Python 3

2008-12-19 Thread excord80
On Dec 4, 2:42 pm, Alan G Isaac ais...@american.edu wrote: Mark Summerfield wrote: Programming in Python 3: A Complete Introduction to the Python Language ISBN 0137129297 http://www.qtrac.eu/py3book.html OMG, you really wrote it in Lout? I wish you would add to

Re: ANN: New Book: Programming in Python 3

2008-12-19 Thread Mark Summerfield
On 19 Dec, 19:52, excord80 excor...@gmail.com wrote: On Dec 4, 2:42 pm, Alan G Isaac ais...@american.edu wrote: Mark Summerfield wrote: Programming in Python 3: A Complete Introduction to the Python Language ISBN 0137129297 http://www.qtrac.eu/py3book.html OMG, you really wrote

Re: ANN: New Book: Programming in Python 3

2008-12-19 Thread Colin J. Williams
Thomas Heller wrote: Mark Summerfield schrieb: Just a follow-up to say that the book has now been published in the U.S. It is now in stock at InformIT, and should reach other stores, e.g., Amazon, in a week or so. Also, the introduction, the first few pages of the first chapter, the whole of

Re: ANN: New Book: Programming in Python 3

2008-12-19 Thread Colin J. Williams
Stefan Behnel wrote: Thomas Heller wrote: Mark Summerfield schrieb: Just a follow-up to say that the book has now been published in the U.S. It is now in stock at InformIT, and should reach other stores, e.g., Amazon, in a week or so. Also, the introduction, the first few pages of the first

Re: ANN: New Book: Programming in Python 3

2008-12-19 Thread Colin J. Williams
Steve Holden wrote: Thomas Heller wrote: Mark Summerfield schrieb: Just a follow-up to say that the book has now been published in the U.S. It is now in stock at InformIT, and should reach other stores, e.g., Amazon, in a week or so. Also, the introduction, the first few pages of the first

Re: ANN: New Book: Programming in Python 3

2008-12-19 Thread Colin J. Williams
Thomas Heller wrote: Steve Holden schrieb: Thomas Heller wrote: Question from a non-native english speaker: is this now valid english? One of Python’s great strengths ^ and also teaches Python’s functional programming features ^ The book’s

Re: ANN: New Book: Programming in Python 3

2008-12-19 Thread Steve Holden
Colin J. Williams wrote: Steve Holden wrote: Thomas Heller wrote: [...] Question from a non-native english speaker: is this now valid english? One of Python’s great strengths ^ and also teaches Python’s functional programming features ^

Re: ANN: New Book: Programming in Python 3

2008-12-19 Thread Steven D'Aprano
On Fri, 19 Dec 2008 18:53:22 +0100, Thomas Heller wrote: Steve Holden schrieb: Thomas Heller wrote: Question from a non-native english speaker: is this now valid english? One of Python’s great strengths ^ and also teaches Python’s functional programming features

Re: ANN: New Book: Programming in Python 3

2008-12-19 Thread Steven D'Aprano
On Fri, 19 Dec 2008 19:32:22 -0500, Colin J. Williams wrote: (Fixing broken unicode.) Question from a non-native english speaker: is this now valid english? One of Python's great strengths ^ and also teaches Python's functional programming features

Re: ANN: New Book: Programming in Python 3

2008-12-19 Thread MRAB
Steven D'Aprano wrote: On Fri, 19 Dec 2008 18:53:22 +0100, Thomas Heller wrote: Steve Holden schrieb: Thomas Heller wrote: Question from a non-native english speaker: is this now valid english? One of Python’s great strengths ^ and also teaches Python’s functional

Re: ANN: New Book: Programming in Python 3

2008-12-19 Thread Steven D'Aprano
On Fri, 19 Dec 2008 19:35:20 -0500, Colin J. Williams wrote: Steve Holden wrote: Thomas Heller wrote: (Fixing broken unicode again) One of Python's great strengths ^ and also teaches Python's functional programming features ^ The book's

Re: ANN: New Book: Programming in Python 3

2008-12-19 Thread rdmurray
Quoth Steven D'Aprano st...@remove-this-cybersource.com.au: The second exception is if the word ends with an S. In British English, you put the apostrophe after the S: Thomas' approach is wholly practical. In American English, they often (but not always) add an extra S: Thomas's approach is

Re: ANN: New Book: Programming in Python 3

2008-12-05 Thread Dotan Cohen
2008/12/5 Mark Summerfield [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I don't think the book is due in Europe until the end of January, but could take longer for elsewhere. (Of course Israel is in Europe according to the Eurovision Song Contest, so you might get lucky:) Yes, we are in the unique geographical and

ANN: New Book: Programming in Python 3

2008-12-04 Thread Mark Summerfield
Now that Python 3 final has been released I thought it would be a good time to mention that there's a new book to go with it: Programming in Python 3: A Complete Introduction to the Python Language ISBN 0137129297 http://www.qtrac.eu/py3book.html I've been working on this for more than a year,

Re: ANN: New Book: Programming in Python 3

2008-12-04 Thread Alan G Isaac
Mark Summerfield wrote: Programming in Python 3: A Complete Introduction to the Python Language ISBN 0137129297 http://www.qtrac.eu/py3book.html OMG, you really wrote it in Lout? I wish you would add to http://www.qtrac.eu/lout.html a comment on what you get out of that (compared to using

Re: ANN: New Book: Programming in Python 3

2008-12-04 Thread James Matthews
I am going to be checking Amazon now and ordering the book. Thanks James On Thu, Dec 4, 2008 at 9:42 PM, Alan G Isaac [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Mark Summerfield wrote: Programming in Python 3: A Complete Introduction to the Python Language ISBN 0137129297 http://www.qtrac.eu/py3book.html

Re: ANN: New Book: Programming in Python 3

2008-12-04 Thread Dotan Cohen
2008/12/4 Mark Summerfield [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Now that Python 3 final has been released I thought it would be a good time to mention that there's a new book to go with it: Programming in Python 3: A Complete Introduction to the Python Language ISBN 0137129297

Re: ANN: New Book: Programming in Python 3

2008-12-04 Thread Mark Summerfield
On 2008-12-04, Dotan Cohen wrote: 2008/12/4 Mark Summerfield [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Now that Python 3 final has been released I thought it would be a good time to mention that there's a new book to go with it: Programming in Python 3: A Complete Introduction to the Python Language ISBN