Which Python book?

William Park parkw at better.net
Wed Feb 9 15:11:43 EST 2000


On Wed, Feb 09, 2000 at 02:09:48AM +0000, Joshua Macy wrote:
> Dan Christian wrote:
> > 
> > There is also a "Pocket Python" book that I can never seem to find my
> > way around.  Maybe I just haven't used it enough to grok the
> > organization.
> 
>   I never take my computer anywhere without one of my copies of Python:
> Pocket Reference in the pouch.   Perhaps someday I'll have absorbed it
> so thoroughly that I don't need it, but until then I'm always reaching
> for it.  The organization is quite simple: it's exactly what's in the
> Table of Contents.  That's not as flip as it sounds; unlike, say,
> Programming Python, I've never been at a moment's loss as to where to
> find a bit of knowledge based on nothing more than the section title as
> listed in the Table of Contents.  An index would be gilding the lilly.
> 
>   Joshua

If you take computer with you, then why don't you try online HTML docs?
I read them using 'lynx'.

William




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