good books

John Hunter jdhunter at nitace.bsd.uchicago.edu
Tue Jul 23 10:12:05 EDT 2002


>>>>> "Percy" == Percy Tambunan <percy at thunderbolt.ee.itb.ac.id> writes:

    Percy> what is a good book in python, If i can only afford to buy
    Percy> just one book?

If you want a book with a long shelf life, many including myself,
recommend Python Essential Reference by David Beazley.  It's a
reference book, but the first 10 chapters read more like a tutorial
and introduction to python for experienced programmers.  If you are
comfortable with the concept of classes, objects, lists, maps,
strings, functions, loops and so forth, then thisis a great book that
won't waste your time and you'll come back to it again and again, even
as you pass from python newbie to guru.

Also the docs that ship with python are latex, so they can be built
into ps, dvi, pdf, whatever printer friendly format you prefer.  If
you have access to a good laser printer and want to save money, print
out *The Python Tutorial* and *The Python Library Reference* that ship
with the src code.  Much of Beazley's books is lifted from the freely
available docs.

John Hunter



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