Re: Python in a Nutshell -- Book vs Web

2008-08-29 Thread Michele Simionato
On Aug 29, 1:44 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Cameron Laird) wrote: > Insightful.  Well, I find it insightful; perhaps it's > a personal blindness on my part.  I expect programmers > to understand, for example, that two lines of code can > be a good day's production, in some circumstances My best days ar

Re: Python in a Nutshell -- Book vs Web

2008-08-29 Thread Cameron Laird
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Fredrik Lundh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Cameron Laird wrote: > >> No. No, to an almost libelous extent. > >No matter what you write about, there's always a certain subcategory of >potential readers who insist that collection, editing, filtering, >structuring,

Re: Python in a Nutshell -- Book vs Web

2008-08-28 Thread Fredrik Lundh
Cameron Laird wrote: No. No, to an almost libelous extent. No matter what you write about, there's always a certain subcategory of potential readers who insist that collection, editing, filtering, structuring, clarification, and the author's real-life experience of the topic he's writing

Re: Python in a Nutshell -- Book vs Web

2008-08-28 Thread Benjamin Kaplan
On Thu, Aug 28, 2008 at 7:58 PM, Cameron Laird <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > In article < > [EMAIL PROTECTED]>, > Matimus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >On Aug 28, 3:05 pm, "W. eWatson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> I read an Amazon of Python in a Nutshell. The first edition is > supposedly > >>

Re: Python in a Nutshell -- Book vs Web

2008-08-28 Thread Cameron Laird
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Matimus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >On Aug 28, 3:05 pm, "W. eWatson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> I read an Amazon of Python in a Nutshell. The first edition is supposedly >> much like the web site. What web site? The second edition apparently adds >> more to the b

Re: Python in a Nutshell -- Book vs Web

2008-08-28 Thread Matimus
On Aug 28, 3:05 pm, "W. eWatson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I read an Amazon of Python in a Nutshell. The first edition is supposedly > much like the web site. What web site? The second edition apparently adds > more to the book than the web site. O'Reilly seems to just read all of the available

Python in a Nutshell -- Book vs Web

2008-08-28 Thread W. eWatson
I read an Amazon of Python in a Nutshell. The first edition is supposedly much like the web site. What web site? The second edition apparently adds more to the book than the web site. -- Wayne Watson (Watson Adventures, Prop., Nevada City, CA) (121.015 Deg. W, 39.262 Deg