[OT] OpenSource Python Books?

[Aahz Maruch]

In article <386BD8D2.9B82143E at callware.com>,
Ivan Van Laningham  <ivanlan at callware.com> wrote:
>
>I could easily be persuaded. ... Having just finished Teach Yourself
>Python, [...]

No, you haven't, you just finished the first draft.  ;-)

>Fred Drake:
>>   I concur.  There are too many books with useless CD-ROMs already.
>> The publishing process is slow enough that it's really hard to make
>> this as useful as it used to be (slow downloads, lack of connectivity,
>> etc., were *good* reasons to include the CD-ROM; the little CD-ROM
>> icon on the cover is not).
>
>This is one reason I resisted putting a CD in TYPython. ...

OTOH, I think it's a Bad Idea to ship a book with lots of example code
and no CD.
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