Tue 10 May 2005
Donnie, good to see you taking an interest in Python. Dive into Python is an excelent way to get a hands on learning experience. Personaly I learned by picking up the Python Pocket Reference for O’Reilly. It is not the best refrence in the world since it lacks an index in the back of the book but it is small and easy to flip through. It goes through all the basics without loading you down with do nothing examples. Where it is lacking the python docs site more than makes up for it. I think that is one of the reasons Python has become successful is because it does have such great documentation. Which reminds me, I should start documenting the DBus Python bindings much better.
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May 10th, 2005 at 5:20 pm
I guess you’ve got an earlier edition of the book, because the 3rd edition that I use has a good index in the back.
May 10th, 2005 at 8:03 pm
I actually picked the pocket ref up too. =) I’ve got a stack of ‘em around for various things, but I find them more useful once I’ve got a good grasp on the concepts that go along with the language.
BTW, the new 3rd edition of the pocket ref does have an index.