Re: definitive source on advanced python?

2006-04-09 Thread shalabh . chaturvedi
You might find http://www.cafepy.com/article/python_types_and_objects/ and http://www.cafepy.com/article/python_attributes_and_methods/ useful. These articles assume you know Python, and describe some of the mechanisms behind Python new-style objects - including descriptors (but not decorators).

Re: definitive source on advanced python?

2006-04-09 Thread vdrab
wow, this looks nice. thanks a lot. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: definitive source on advanced python?

2006-04-06 Thread pruebauno
vdrab wrote: Hi all, Is there some sort of coherent source (dead tree format, maybe?) on some of the more advanced features of python (decorators, metaclasses, etc)? I'm sort of looking for a If you just want a good book in feature description I recomend Python in a Nutshell. It will

Re: definitive source on advanced python?

2006-04-06 Thread Russ Salsbury
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: vdrab wrote: Hi all, Is there some sort of coherent source (dead tree format, maybe?) on some of the more advanced features of python (decorators, metaclasses, etc)? I'm sort of looking for a If you just want a good book in feature description I recomend

Re: definitive source on advanced python?

2006-04-03 Thread Alex Martelli
vdrab [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, Is there some sort of coherent source (dead tree format, maybe?) on some of the more advanced features of python (decorators, metaclasses, etc)? I'm sort of looking for a python book that actually gets to the good stuff at some point, without first

Re: definitive source on advanced python?

2006-04-03 Thread vdrab
Thank you. The original question was not meant to sound particularly arrogant, and as you point out a book covering ONLY things like metaprogramming would probably be pretty useless in its own way. I have been using python on and off for about a year or so but still find myself staring at some of

Re: definitive source on advanced python?

2006-04-03 Thread Michele Simionato
I gave a course on advanced Python last year at the ACCU conference. See http://www.reportlab.org/~andy/accu2005/pyuk2005_simionato_wondersofpython.zip Michele Simionato -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

definitive source on advanced python?

2006-04-03 Thread vdrab
Hi all, Is there some sort of coherent source (dead tree format, maybe?) on some of the more advanced features of python (decorators, metaclasses, etc)? I'm sort of looking for a python book that actually gets to the good stuff at some point, without first spending 6 chapters on how to append

Re: definitive source on advanced python?

2006-04-03 Thread Gabriel de Dietrich
Maybe you're looking for something like this? http://jamesthornton.com/eckel/TIPython/html/Index.htm Haven't read it yet, but seems to be about design patterns. Not the definitive stuff, though... -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: definitive source on advanced python?

2006-04-03 Thread bruno at modulix
Gabriel de Dietrich wrote: Maybe you're looking for something like this? http://jamesthornton.com/eckel/TIPython/html/Index.htm Haven't read it yet, but seems to be about design patterns. Not the definitive stuff, though... While TIP is an interesting book, it is more about implementation

Re: definitive source on advanced python?

2006-04-03 Thread Kent Johnson
vdrab wrote: Hi all, Is there some sort of coherent source (dead tree format, maybe?) on some of the more advanced features of python (decorators, metaclasses, etc)? I'm sort of looking for a python book that actually gets to the good stuff at some point, without first spending 6 chapters

Re: definitive source on advanced python?

2006-04-03 Thread Alex Martelli
vdrab [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thank you. The original question was not meant to sound particularly arrogant, and as you point out a book covering ONLY things like metaprogramming would probably be pretty useless in its own way. There's a niche market for such books -- Putting