On Thu, 13 Sep 2007, Lamonte Harris wrote: > http://www.powells.com/biblio/63-9780596001889-7 Used, has anyone read this > book. Any additional information that you like,dislike about this book?
I love it, and use it more than any other Python book. Much as I hate to be the bearer of bad news here, though, the URL you give above is for the first edition, published four years ago. Alex put out a second edition just last year. The edition you bought covers through Python 2.2 or 2.3. The current edition covers through 2.5. That being said... it's still very useful, and while I've thought about buying a second edition, I still find the first edition to be extremely useful. I'd suggest reviewing the Python release notes for 2.4 and 2.5 to see what's changed since then. I've bought a *lot* of slightly-out-of-date computer books used and cheap, and you can still learn an awful lot from them. > [I like having real books and stead of ebooks because its better on the > eyes.] I'm with you. I like to do my reading laying on my bed before going to sleep; and even when using a book as a reference while coding, I like to look from my editor and leaf back and forth in the book; much more effective, to me, than screen swapping. _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
