Off Topic: What is the good book to learn Python ?

[Aahz]

In article <mailman.8443.1180577667.32031.python-list at python.org>,
kaens  <apatheticagnostic at gmail.com> wrote:
>On 30 May 2007 17:28:39 -0700, Aahz <aahz at pythoncraft.com> wrote:
>> In article <mailman.8439.1180569067.32031.python-list at python.org>,
>> kaens  <apatheticagnostic at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>I would also recommend to stay away from any "for dummies" or "in x
>>>(hours/days)" books. They can be decent introductory material, but
>>>unless you are really really new to programming, you probably wouldn't
>>>be getting enough information to justify the cost of the book (and a
>>>lot of times they have a lot of bad practices in them)
>>
>> Maybe you should try actually reading _Python for Dummies_.  ;-)
>
>I haven't read it, maybe I will. I have just noticed that the "for
>dummies" books tend to be a bit lacking.

Some are; some aren't.  Like any broad and rapid-to-market series, there
are plenty of books that are pretty bad.  But there are also plenty of
good Dummies books -- for example, _Personal Finance for Dummies_.

Speaking as the co-author of _Python for Dummies_, one of our goals was
to write a book that was both different from the other introductory
Python books and managed to match the quality of the best of them.  I'm
not sure we succeeded in the second part, but I do think we did better
than the median, if only because between me and David Goodger (our tech
editor), we probably made fewer technical mistakes.  ;-)
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