Books: Core Python Programming vs. Python Cookbook

[Doug Glenn]

On Monday 06 January 2003 23:29, Neil MacMillan wrote:
> I'm looking for a book in which I can find explanations and examples
> for things like Tkinter, network programming in Python, etc.  Topics

Heck, I've bought about every Python book out there from Learning 
Python, Programming Python, Python in 24 hours (yeck), Python 
Programming on Win32, Python Essential Reference, Learning to Program 
using Python.. and the best of the lot for getting me up and running 
was the Quick Python book by Daryl Harms and Kenneth McDonald.  It got 
me up and running the quickest.  The others were more pendatic going 
from intro, to this, to that, and you had to follow each in order to 
move onto the next.  This book got down and showed only the bare bones 
quickly and then going on to more estoric stuff without putting you 
through a lot of the background or why. You were expected to go out and 
get the others instead :)  I already knew basic programming. What I 
needed was a way to go from a to c without having to sip on b.  Now I 
can go back and use the others more as a reference.  I suppose it all 
boils down to what your background is and where you are expecting to 
go.  

I just needed something simple and fast. I don't expect to get in depth 
as a lot of people, so covering the finer points or even the fine 
points was not what I was looking for. Just basic examples I could 
string together and get it done initially.  Now that is over, I can go 
back and take more time with the details.

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Doug