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Observation on "Core Python Programming"

Nick Vatamaniuc vatamane at gmail.com
Sun Oct 29 17:22:44 EST 2006 
...Skimmed through the previous edition.

I don't normally read programming books -- just use the chapters that I
need when I need them, unless of course there is a clever plot twist
coming up ahead (for ex.:  "Next: The revenge of lambdas. Will they
stay or will they go?"  ;-)

Why? Have you read it from beginning  to end. What did you think about
functions being introduced later than files and exceptions?

-Nick V.

Fredrik Lundh wrote:
> Nick Vatamaniuc wrote:
>
> > I would consider that an omission. Functions are very important in
> > Python. I think the user/reader should see the _def_ and _class_
> > statement fairly soon in the introduction.  The name of the book is
> > thus somewhat misleading, because functions are at the "core" of
> > Python.
> 
> have you read the book?
> 
> </F>
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