[EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Machin) writes: > "Jeffrey Maitland" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:<[EMAIL > PROTECTED]>... > > 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. -- Mark Jackson - http://www.alumni.caltech.edu/~mjackson You should always save hyperbole until you really need it. - Hobbes (Bill Watterson) -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
