[Baypiggies] Book Suggestions?

[William Deegan]

Stephen,

I'd give a -1 on the python cookbook it's not anywhere as useful as
the perl cookbook (for perl of course).
Learning Python or Programming python would be my vote.

-Bill

On Tue, Jun 30, 2009 at 12:35 PM, Alec Flett <alecf at flett.org> wrote:
>
> I've personally always recommended the Python Cookbook, if you feel like you know python moderately well.. the reason is that it shows you some great patterns that go beyond just knowing the syntax of the language - among other things it really redefined for me what "Object Oriented" meant in a Python context. (and that was *after* doing C/C++ for 7 years and Python 2 years!)
> Alec
>
> On Tue, Jun 30, 2009 at 12:27 PM, Stephen Cattaneo <stephen.cattaneo at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I have a $50 gift certificate to amazon burning a hole in my pocket.
>> I'd like to pick up either a newb/intermediate Django book or an
>> intermediate/advanced general Python book.
>>
>> Any suggestions?
>>
>> (I currently own a single Python book: "Python in a Nutshell.")
>>
>>
>> Cheers,
>>
>> S
>>
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