Update Oreilly books?

[Kirill Miazine]

* Bas van Gils <bas.vangils at home.nl> [20011219 08:43]:
> > I agree... Programming Python is a massive treasure trove of topics.  It 
> > just covers so much.  The Tkinter section is great and pretty extensive, 
> > the networking and CGI areas are good as well.  Then there are the 
> > sections on system scripting and so forth.  It is well rounded.  My only 
> > complaint is the excessive code redundancy--they could have shaved 
> > 100-200 pages off the thing by not reprinting an entire code example 
> > when one or two lines change...
> 
> I am a believer as well :-) The first edition of PP was my intro in the
> world of Python. I still think mr. Lutz dit an excellent job on that

Mine too, but I started with PP2.

> one. I recently purchased the second edition and am reading it back to
> back. IMHO the book is written in a consistent manner, has lots of humor
> <quite important :-)> in it and many insightfull examples.

Yes. But as I mentioned before, some people (including me) expected more
of a reference book (like Programming Perl is). But examples are always
great and Python Pocket Reference together with Programming Python make an
unbeatable combination.

> However, I agree that some improvements should be made on the index. It
> is sometimes hard to find what one needs. Thats why I also bought
> "Python Pocket Reference"...

I got my Python Pocket Reference 2 Edition yesterday. It's a lot better
than PPR1. Highly recommended.

-- 
Kirill