[python-win32] Is Mark Hammond going to produce a new Python Programming on Win32 book?

[Tim Roberts]

happybrowndog wrote:
> I've had Mark's Python Programming on Win32 book for 6 years now, and 
> it's been a constant source of information and a joy to read and possess.
>
> Windows has added a lot since the book hit the shelves, with the 
> maturation of .Net, winforms and other application technologies, and a 
> "new" OS.  There's still the old way of doing things with COM, etc.  The 
> Ctypes package has also fleshed out to be very useful on Windows.  Then 
> there's IronPython, and Python for .Net.
>   

Well, there's an interesting issue here.  Much of the new stuff you have 
mentioned has nothing to do with the Python that we know and love.  .NET 
and winforms (which is part of .NET) requires managed code, and that 
means IronPython.  IronPython is NOT the same as Python; although the 
language is the same, the library and the idiomatic usage are so very 
different that it's difficult for one person to be competent in both.

Indeed, for things that are not .NET, Mark's book is still pretty much 
current.

Perhaps we'll get a book on IronPython to make it a little more 
approachable for us CPython users.

-- 
Tim Roberts, timr at probo.com
Providenza & Boekelheide, Inc.