Which Python book?

[Matt Winterroth]

lets not forget that lutz's "programming python" is quite old - dating back
to october of 1996...i'd much rather wait for a new edition to be printed
up, but i'm not holding my breath with o'reilly...i love them to death, but
how long did it take the java 1.2 nutshell book to come out?

another one of my favorite python books is "the quick python book" by
kenneth mcdonald, daryl d. harms...good tutorial, code examples and pros and
cons over other application and scripting languages...

hope this helps... 

> From: Patrick Tufts <zippy at cs.brandeis.edu>
> Organization: SBC Internet Services
> Newsgroups: comp.lang.python
> Date: Thu, 20 Jan 2000 20:33:49 -0800
> Subject: Re: Which Python book?
> 
> In article <3dzouke2v7.fsf at amarok.cnri.reston.va.us>, Andrew M.
> Kuchling <akuchlin at mems-exchange.org> wrote:
> 
>> Bala <engbpa at liquidinformation.com> writes:
>>> Python Essential Reference (OTHER NEW RIDERS)
>>> by David M. Beazley, Guido Van Rossum
>>> or
>>> Learning Python (Help for Programmers)
>>> by Mark Lutz, David Ascher, Frank Willison (Editor)
>> 
>> The Essential Reference is just what its title says: a reference
>> guide.  You'd have to be *really* motivated to learn Python from it.
> 
> 
> The Essential Reference is an excellent reference.  Get it anyway.  But
> you won't learn the language from it -- it's too terse for that.
> 
> Oh, and don't bother with "Programming Python" (also by Mark Lutz).
> It's not a good for learning or reference.  I've read reviews that say
> "Learning Python" is much better.
> 
> --Pat