[Tutor] Books

[Brian van den Broek]

daniel.brown at realtimeworlds.com said unto the world upon 2005-12-22 05:00:
> While we are on the topic of books, what book would you recommend for
> the experienced C++/C# programmer looking to pick up Python?  I've been
> looking at 'Python in a Nutshell' and 'Programming Python' on
> amazon.co.uk, as I've found O'Reilly books good in the past.  I'm mainly
> looking to use Python for general scripting tasks as I'm finding that
> batch files just aren't flexible or powerful enough on WinXP...
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Daniel

Hi Daniel,

the Nutshell is the one to have at hand when coding. I don't know if 
one could learn from it. Dive into Python is targeted at the 
experienced programmer and is available both in dead tree and 
electronic form <http://diveintopython.org/>.

Best,

Brian vdB