John Hunter jdhunter at ace.bsd.uchicago.edu
Mon Oct 21 11:38:17 EDT 2002

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>>>>> "4Space" == 4Space  <4space at microsoft.com> writes:

    4Space> Can anyone reccomend a good book for a C++/C# programmer
    4Space> who wants to learn Pyhton for scripting on Linux and
    4Space> Windows.

Tons of posts on this on the Google Groups archive.  

http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&safe=off&scoring=d&q=book+recommendation+group%3A%2Apython%2A&btnG=Google+Search

See for example:

http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&safe=off&frame=right&th=5d2a9a3bcfc70c21&seekm=mailman.1021494326.20936.python-list%40python.org#link1

In a nutshell: Experienced programmers love "Python Essential
Reference" by David Beazley and The Python Cookbook is also very well
received:

http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&safe=off&threadm=lkhefp45j0.fsf%40pc150.maths.bris.ac.uk&rnum=15&prev=/groups%3Fq%3Dpython%2Bcookbook%2Bgroup:*python*%26start%3D10%26hl%3Den%26lr%3D%26ie%3DUTF-8%26oe%3DUTF-8%26safe%3Doff%26scoring%3Dd%26selm%3Dlkhefp45j0.fsf%2540pc150.maths.bris.ac.uk%26rnum%3D15


I also came to python from C++; I think you'll be pleased!

John Hunter

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