OO patterns with Python

[Ryan]

I don't know about a book or a URL on patters which is
language-independant,
but there are two books that cover a nice bit of it for Python;

1) Python Programming Patterns by Thomas W. Christopher
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0130409561/qid=1044920194/sr=8-1/ref=sr_8_1/002-2386561-6330438?v=glance&s=books
2) Python Cookbook by Alex Martelli (Oriely)
http://posting.google.com/post?gs=%2Fgroups%3Fdq%3D%26hl%3Den%26lr%3D%26ie%3DUTF-8%26oe%3Dutf-8%26group%3Dcomp.lang.python%26selm%3D3e4800b2_2%2540news.vo.lu&msg=3e4800b2_2%40news.vo.lu&cmd=post&enc=ISO-8859-1

OO is more a mindset than anything, the fact that the language give
convinient constructs to use the concepts is just a big conviniance.

Worst case scenario you can check on the Java groups (or google) for
some of the most common explanations and patterns.

"Patrick Useldinger" <no at way.lu> wrote in message news:<3e4800b2_2 at news.vo.lu>...
> Hello all,
> 
> I am an "experienced" programmer, but as I've worked on mainframes for the
> last 13 years I never had the opportunity to experiment with OO. I've now
> decided to close that enormous gap, and chose Python as the language to do
> so.
> 
> My understanding is that OO is not that trivial, and that patterns have been
> created as template solutions for common or difficult problems. As there
> seems to be no specific book on patterns with Python, can anybody recommend
> a book or a URL on patters which is language-independant, so that I do not
> have to learn C++, Java or whatever first?