[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Alex Martelli) writes: > I'm considering proposing to O'Reilly a 2nd edition of "Python in a > Nutshell", that I'd write in 2005, essentially to cover Python 2.3 and > 2.4 (the current 1st edition only covers Python up to 2.2). > > What I have in mind is not as complete a rewrite as for the 2nd vs 1st > edition of the Cookbook -- Python hasn't changed drastically between 2.2 > and 2.4, just incrementally. Language and built-ins additions I'd of > course cover -- decorators, custom descriptors (already in 2.2 but not > well covered in the 1st edition), importing from zipfiles, extended > slicing of built-in sequences, sets, genexps, ... and also major new > standard library modules such as (in no special order) optparse, > tarfile, bsddb's new stuff, logging, Decimal, cookielib, datetime, > email... and new capabilities of existing modules, such as thread-local > storage. Outside of the standard library, I was thinking of expanding > the coverage of Twisted and adding just a few things (numarray -- > perhaps premature to have it _instead_ of Numeric, though; dateutils, > paramiko, py2app...). Since the book's size can't change much, I'll > also have to snip some stuff (the pre-email ways to deal with mail, for > example; modules asyncore and asynchat, probably) to make space for all > of the additions. > > I haven't take any real decisions about it, yet, except one: I'll keep > covering Tkinter, rather than moving to, say, wxPython (no space to > _add_ wx coverage while leaving Tk intact - having to choose, I still > believe Tkinter coverage is going to help more readers). Just about > everything else is still to be finalized in my mind... > > So, if there's any advice or request about a 2nd edition of the > Nutshell, this is the right time for y'all to let me know. Feedback is > welcome, either privately or right here. Thanks in advance -- _and_ > apologies in advance because I know I just won't be able to accomodate > all the requests/advice, given the constraints on book size &c.
I found the discussion of unicode, in any python book I have, insufficient. Thomas -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
