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If you can only buy *one* Python book...

Gerrit Holl gerrit.holl at pobox.com
Mon Jan 17 14:47:59 EST 2000 
Paul E. Bible wrote on 948064265:
> I found 'Learning Python' to be very easy to read and a great book to get
> started programming in Python...

Agreed.

> The 'Python Essential Reference' is a good addition to the online
> documentation as well.

Disagreed. I think the online reference is far the best and most
complete there is. You don't need any other book than 'Learning Python';
you aren't going to *read* the library reference, are you?
Maybe the first few chapters on builtin-types and common modules like os,
string (obsolete in 1.6), sys, and knowing about glob, rexec and
MimeWriter can also be useful, but *reading* it as a whole... no.

> I found 'Programming Python' somewhat difficult to follow myself.

Agreed.

regards,
Gerrit.

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