Re: any author you find very good has written a book on Python?

2022-09-09 Thread Fulian Wang
___ From: Python-list on behalf of Tim Daneliuk via Python-list Sent: Wednesday, September 7, 2022 12:39:25 PM To: python-list@python.org Subject: Re: any author you find very good has written a book on Python? On 9/5/22 21:22, Meredith Montgomery wrote: > I never read a book on Python. I&#

Re: any author you find very good has written a book on Python?

2022-09-07 Thread Tim Daneliuk via Python-list
On 9/5/22 21:22, Meredith Montgomery wrote: I never read a book on Python. I'm looking for a good one now. I just searched the web for names such as Charles Petzold, but it looks like he never wrote a book on Python. I also searched for Peter Seibel, but he also never did. I also tried to sea

Re: any author you find very good has written a book on Python?

2022-09-07 Thread TheSeeker
On Monday, September 5, 2022 at 9:23:04 PM UTC-5, Meredith Montgomery wrote: > I never read a book on Python. I'm looking for a good one now. I just > searched the web for names such as Charles Petzold, but it looks like he > never wrote a book on Python. I also searched for Peter Seibel, but he

Re: any author you find very good has written a book on Python?

2022-09-07 Thread Meredith Montgomery
jkn writes: > On Tuesday, September 6, 2022 at 4:36:38 PM UTC+1, Meredith Montgomery wrote: >> Paul Rubin writes: >> >> > Meredith Montgomery writes: >> >> So that's my request --- any author you find very good has written a >> >> book on Python? >> > >> > The ones by David Beazley are gr

Re: any author you find very good has written a book on Python?

2022-09-06 Thread Dennis Lee Bieber
On Mon, 05 Sep 2022 23:22:34 -0300, Meredith Montgomery declaimed the following: >I never read a book on Python. I'm looking for a good one now. I just >searched the web for names such as Charles Petzold, but it looks like he So far as I know, Petzold is a Windows Internals type person

Re: any author you find very good has written a book on Python?

2022-09-06 Thread Thomas Passin
On 9/6/2022 5:10 PM, jkn wrote: On Tuesday, September 6, 2022 at 9:06:31 PM UTC+1, Thomas Passin wrote: Mark Pilgram's "Dive Into Python" was good. Now he's updated it for Python 3: like, about ten years ago? (I think Mark Pilgrim dropped off the 'net many years ago...) Yes, I thought so too

RE: any author you find very good has written a book on Python?

2022-09-06 Thread avi.e.gross
Subject: searching for books by an author you like on rather unrelated topics. I am curious if you normally look or books by a writer of Mysteries you like to see if they also wrote Science Fiction or Cookbooks and so on? Having said that, there are plenty of people in the Computer Science field

Re: any author you find very good has written a book on Python?

2022-09-06 Thread jkn
On Tuesday, September 6, 2022 at 9:06:31 PM UTC+1, Thomas Passin wrote: > Mark Pilgram's "Dive Into Python" was good. Now he's updated it for > Python 3: like, about ten years ago? (I think Mark Pilgrim dropped off the 'net many years ago...) > https://diveintopython3.net > On 9/6/2022 11:36 A

Re: any author you find very good has written a book on Python?

2022-09-06 Thread jkn
On Tuesday, September 6, 2022 at 4:36:38 PM UTC+1, Meredith Montgomery wrote: > Paul Rubin writes: > > > Meredith Montgomery writes: > >> So that's my request --- any author you find very good has written a > >> book on Python? > > > > The ones by David Beazley are great. Same with his non-

Re: any author you find very good has written a book on Python?

2022-09-06 Thread Peter J. Holzer
On 2022-09-05 23:22:34 -0300, Meredith Montgomery wrote: > I never read a book on Python. I'm looking for a good one now. I just > searched the web for names such as Charles Petzold, but it looks like he > never wrote a book on Python. I also searched for Peter Seibel, but he > also never did.

Re: any author you find very good has written a book on Python?

2022-09-06 Thread Louis Krupp
On 9/5/2022 8:22 PM, Meredith Montgomery wrote: I never read a book on Python. I'm looking for a good one now. I just searched the web for names such as Charles Petzold, but it looks like he never wrote a book on Python. I also searched for Peter Seibel, but he also never did. I also tried to

Re: any author you find very good has written a book on Python?

2022-09-06 Thread Thomas Passin
Mark Pilgram's "Dive Into Python" was good. Now he's updated it for Python 3: https://diveintopython3.net On 9/6/2022 11:36 AM, Meredith Montgomery wrote: Paul Rubin writes: Meredith Montgomery writes: So that's my request --- any author you find very good has written a book on Python?

Re: any author you find very good has written a book on Python?

2022-09-06 Thread Meredith Montgomery
Paul Rubin writes: > Meredith Montgomery writes: >> So that's my request --- any author you find very good has written a >> book on Python? > > The ones by David Beazley are great. Same with his non-book writings > about Python. See: http://dabeaz.com/ Distilled Python is looking really nice,