Python Books for 2002

Aahz Maruch aahz at panix.com
Tue Apr 10 20:48:34 EDT 2001


[cc'd to Fred Drake]

In article <9avhkm0tjh at drn.newsguy.com>,
Grant Griffin  <not.this at seebelow.org> wrote:
>
>I have a more general gripe with the Python docs: that you have to go
>through a process of learning where things are.  (And after more than
>a year, I'm still learning...)  I think the individual docs themselves
>are well written, but I think the overall way they are organized makes
>them pretty hard to use.  (Perhaps this is a historical thing: maybe an
>accretion problem.  So perhaps they should be totally reorganized.)
>
>For example, when I was new to Python, I looked for an explantion of
>"print" in the "built-in functions" section.  However, it turns out
>that print is a _statement_ (which is a fine point that's lost on
>beginners...), and, as such, a complete description of "print" appears
>only in the reference manual.  Well, obviously.

Yup.  I've been complaining about this to Fred Drake for some time, but
we haven't hit a spot where both of us have the time/energy to really
work on this.  It's currently my ball.
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