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How did you learn Python?

Mark Jackson mjackson at alumni.caltech.edu
Fri Dec 3 15:23:31 EST 2004 
sjmachin at lexicon.net (John Machin) writes:
> "Jeffrey Maitland" <maitj at vianet.ca> wrote in message news:<mailman.7089.1102087828.5135.python-list at python.org>...
> > Well I would suggest the Python in a Nutshell and the Python Cookbook  both 
> > by O'Reilly as references.  They are great for a desktop reference and I 
> > check them first before I google/search else where for answers.  Being they 
> > are reference books they or more on aide then a teaching device however I 
> > have learned from those books how to use certain standard classes, such as 
> > the re class for example. 
> 
> Somebody called O'Reilly taught you that Python has "standard
> classes", one of which is "re"??? Hmmm, can't have been O'Reilly the
> publisher; must have been O'Reilly the builder.

Or possibly O'Reilly the pundit.  Lucky he didn't tell you Python has
falafels.

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