good python tutorials for C mother-tongues?

[dickpoon IMS]

Hi Kim,

I am reading "Learning Python". It's not that bad but to speak frankly, it is
a little bit dull!
But I am sure that one could learn something valuable in this book. I don't
think there are too many choices available out there except the concise
tutorial written by Guido himself!

June Kim wrote:

> Thank you all who have answered me.
> As you guys recommended, I'm reading through Guido's, and hopefully
> will finish it sooner or later. For the next step I've been considering
> several
> books and Mr. Griffin said he read "Learning Python" from beloved O'Reily.
> However, I was somewhat surprised after I visited AMAZON to read some
> reviews about it, which turned out to be critical and negative to some
> degree.
> I love O'Reily's Learning/Programming Perl and thought Learning Python
> would keep up with the great style as those, but people wrote Python
> versions of Learning/Programming are way below expectations.
>
> What are your opinions?
>
> "Grant Griffin" <g2 at seebelow.org> wrote in message
> news:39D98690.9821F93C at seebelow.org...
> > June Kim wrote:
> > >
> > > Just as the subject goes.
> > >
> > > Are there any good python tutorials for
> > > professional programmers who's been
> > > brought up in C language?
> >
> > The tutorial that comes with Python (by Guido van Rossum, Python's
> > creator) is very good.  I spent one full working day going through it,
> > and I felt like I had a basic understanding of Python at the end of the
> > day.  Then, in the next few days, I was able to write several small (but
> > non-trivial) programs in Python.
> >
> > I bet most experienced C programmers would have a similar experience.
> > The only thing that might be difficult for C (but not C++) programmers
> > is Python's object-oriented features.  If you don't already know about
> > OO programming, Python is probably a good language to learn it in, but
> > Guido's tutorial is directed at teaching how _Python_ does OO, not at
> > teaching OO concepts in general.  (There are lots of good (and not so
> > good) books on that.)
> >
> > The next thing I did was read the book "Learning Python" cover-to-cover,
> > which filled in some details.  Now, after having practiced Python for
> > many months, I'm reading "Python Essential Reference" cover-to-cover.
> > Again, that fills in more details.
> >
> > Also, I recommend you study the online documentation for Python's most
> > useful modules: os, os.path, sys, and string; you will use one or more
> > of these in nearly any substantial Python program.  (Python has a
> > zillion modules, so I kindda had to figure out for myself which modules
> > I should really "learn".)
> >
> > one-of-the-nicest-things-about-Python-is-that-you-can-learn-it-in
> >    -layers-ly y'rs,
> >
> > =g2
> > --
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