[Python-authors] what should we do with this list?

[Steve Holden]

As far as  not-writing work goes, I'm currently the CTO of a fintech
startup, which has severely limited the time I've had for writing. If the
company doesn't succeed there has to be a book in that! S

Steve Holden

On Mon, Oct 10, 2016 at 9:23 PM, Steve Holden <steve at holdenweb.com> wrote:

> Hi Doug,
>
> My experience is that there aren't a huge number of changes tot he
> standard library (and no new modules yet). I don't think you will lose a
> lot of audience with your decisions.
>
> S
>
> Steve Holden
>
> On Mon, Oct 10, 2016 at 7:10 PM, Doug Hellmann <doug at doughellmann.com>
> wrote:
>
>>
>> On Oct 10, 2016, at 12:19 PM, Steve Holden <steve at holdenweb.com> wrote:
>>
>> Maybe we could encouraging some swapping of war stories, under "frieNDA".
>>
>> I can mention that I have an authoring project on the go - with Alex
>> Martelli and Anna Ravenscroft I am working on the 3rd Edition of "Python in
>> a Nutshell." I spent this weekend taking the "What's New in Python 3.6"
>> documentation apart and analysing the changes so that we could be sure that
>> the book will be as up to date as possible when it's published early next
>> year.
>>
>>
>> I’m working on updating “The Python Standard Library by Example” to work
>> with Python 3.5. I haven’t tested any of my examples to make sure they
>> still work with 3.6, and I’m close enough to my deadline that I don’t think
>> I want to try it for now. Unless someone thinks there’s a critical new
>> module in that version?
>>
>>
>> O'Reilly wanted to have the book out for Christmas, and I fought hard to
>> delay it, on the grounds that the publication timetable would be too rushed
>> to submit before Christmas, product quality would have suffered and we
>> wouldn't have been able to be definitive on 3.6. The first and only other
>> time I wrote a major work (Python Web Programming, published in 2002) I was
>> a brand new author, and tended to defer too easily to the publisher. But
>> now I hope I have learned how to make an argument to them in business terms.
>>
>> So, having tried to get the party started, what's everyone else working
>> on?
>>
>> regards
>>  Steve
>>
>> Steve Holden
>>
>> On Mon, Oct 10, 2016 at 3:57 PM, Vasudev Ram <vasudevram at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Steve Holden wrote:
>>>
>>> >But if nobody has the time to perform the resultant tasks, the list
>>> would probably be better fading away.
>>>
>>> What would be those resultant tasks? IIRC it's quite a while since I
>>> saw any emails from this list, so I don't remember what kinds of
>>> emails there may have been, earlier, of the type you refer to. Was it
>>> something like other authors on this list being able to help out
>>> anyone posting questions as a first-time author, with some advice?
>>>
>>> (I was earlier going to say maybe close the list, but it seems like a
>>> pity to let the effort of starting it go waste).
>>>
>>> But, sort of agreeing now with Steve's and Mike Driscoll's  suggestion
>>> that it be kept open, and just see if anything happens - i.e. if there
>>> will be any activity on it and if it turns out to be useful to people.
>>> That still doesn't solve how new people will get to know of it,
>>> though. Maybe it could be mentioned somewhere on the Python Wiki, if
>>> that is not already done?
>>> And/or a post once in a while on the PSF blog?
>>>
>>> My 2c.
>>>
>>> --
>>> Vasudev Ram
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