Book: Programming Python 3 (Second Edition) now available

[Mark Summerfield]

Hi,

I'm delighted to announce that a new edition of my Python 3 book is
now available in the U.S.

"Programming in Python 3 (Second Edition):
A Complete Introduction to the Python Language"
ISBN 0321680561
http://www.qtrac.eu/py3book.html

The book has been fully revised and updated and now covers both Python
3.0
and 3.1, and with the language moratorium (PEP 3003), this second
edition
should be useful for many years to come. And in addition to the
thorough
updating, the book has been extended with new chapters on debugging,
testing, and profiling, and on parsing (including coverage of the
PyParsing and
PLY modules), as well as a new section on coroutines in the advanced
chapter.

The book is aimed at a wide audience, but assumes some programming
experience (not necessarily Python, not necessarily object-oriented).
It teaches solid procedural style programming, then builds on that to
teach solid object-oriented programming, and then goes on to more
advanced
topics (e.g., including a nice way to create validated attributes by
combining class decorators with descriptors). But even newcomers to
Python 3 should be able to write useful (although small and basic)
programs after reading chapter 1, and then go on to create larger and
more sophisticated programs as they work through the chapters.

All the examples are available for download from the book's web site.