Python: Developer's Handbook (Other Sams)

Description: I bought this at a Borders store after comparing all the Python books they had in stock (they had no O'Reilly book at the time). The basic language is pretty simple, so I was looking for something that had a lot of library chapters. This fit the bill fairly well, but there are a number of frustrating things. The poor editing job to clean up the author's English is the biggest. The layout of paragragh name, content, examples is sometimes accidentally inconsistant, i.e. more poor editing. While it covers a lot of library code in its 900+ pages, it leaves out some stuff I would use a lot. Perhaps the sections on interacting with Java and C should be in a separate book. Think of this book as something that touches on everything but needs to be augmented by more detailed books in areas of interest. Finally, the Python 2.x information was added late in the process. That was not a big deal, as I had been writing to 1.5 specs. All in all, the book was worthwhile and I expect to keep using it, .. ISBN: 0672319942 Release Date: 12 December, 2000 List Price: $31.49 Author: Andre DOS Santos Lessa, Andre S. Lessa Publisher: Sams Last Updated: 06/26/2003

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