python a bust?

[John Howard]

Let's say some one walked into a book store and glanced at the books
in computers. He might think, "gee look at all the books on java and
perl and hardly any books on python. What is python? And it's not even
in the languages section. No sense in looking at that!"  It's a matter
of perception. "Lots of perl and java - that's the way to go." I also
agree that maybe a lot of books on python are not necessary to learn
the langage. Heck, I learned almost all I know (which I admit is not
much) from web tutorials and samples. But I do have questions I cannot
find the answers to when I browse the book store. Eg, how do I do
admin stuff with python? How do I do cgi stuff with python? There are
books on how to do these in perl. Dozens.

pythonguy at Hotpop.com (Anand Pillai) wrote in message news:<84fc4588.0311140319.3778de15 at posting.google.com>...
> In the ideal "techie makes decisions" world this would have
> been a good thing. But not in the real world where the Suits
> make decisions in corporates. 
> 
> There might have been thousands of books published in C/C++
> language and they have all helped to popularize it in one
> or the other way. Contrast, in the python world we have one
> Alex Martelli, one Wesley Chun, one David Mertz, really
> countable by hand.
> 
> There is a limit to how much a single person can evangelize
> a language. Questions similar to what the O.P posted arise
> from the listeners. 
> 
> I would prefer to see more books on Python though they all might
> be useless from a pure techie point of view. Let us have
> a book on Software Projects in python for example. It might not
> have the technical superiority of a Martelli book, but more 
> attempts like that will save the language and help the 
> eyeball factor, which is so important in practical marketing.
> 
> -Anand
> 
> afriere at yahoo.co.uk (Asun Friere) wrote in message news:<38ec68a6.0311132310.630e10e2 at posting.google.com>...
> > python473 at yahoo.com (John Howard) wrote in message news:<9eabe547.0311131610.4dd7819c at posting.google.com>...
> > > I've sent several messages over the last year asking about python - 
> > > Who teaches python? Is python losing steam? etc. I have noticed, eg,
> > > the declinng number of books at my local borders. The last time I
> > > visited a borders (last week), there was 1 (sic) book about python on
> > > the shelve compared to dozens on perl & java!
> > 
> > 
> > If you were developing in Java or Perl maybe you would need dozens of
> > books.  But Python is so elegant and intuitive a single one will do.
> > ;)