Steven Chan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I completely agree. I'm also waiting for an advanced Python/project > management book that helps folks out with large-scale projects.
I won't schedule that project until the Nutshell 2nd ed is substantially done... and I'm not _promising_ I'll schedule it right afterwards;-). > And, for the 2nd edition, may I suggest: > - coverage of OptionParser module, which is more advanced than the > getopt module that you discuss on page 141. I assume you mean optparse -- that's the module; OptionParser is a class within that module. Yep, covering that is in the plan. > - better Mac OS X application building coverage. Tell us how to build > double-clickable applications. Python in a Nutshell is a book about *cross-platform* Python. There is practically no *WINDOWS*-specific coverage -- 80% of the market or whatever -- it would be absurd if there was platform-specific coverage for a (wonderful) system that has less than 1/10th as much volume (and much as I may be rooting for the mac mini to revolutionize the market, I suspect it will only make a relatively small, incremental difference). I *WISH* I could write a book about Python on the Mac -- ever since I got my iBook, over a year ago, it's been my love and joy, and as soon as I had to change a desktop machine I got myself a dual processor G5 PowerMac too. However, when I proposed that idea to O'Reilly, their reaction was a firm no -- it's too narrow a market, they think (and, being the premier publisher for both the Mac AND Python, they should know, if anybody does). I don't know if this perception of O'Reilly can be changed. If it ever does change, I sure hope they'll call me first, to do that book...!!! > I wish I could ask for wxPython coverage (the whole chapter on tkinter > is useless to me), but I won't start a flame war here. As long as Tkinter is distributed with standard Python and not deprecated, it's unlikely that a reference work about Python can just quietly ignore it. If standard Python changed in this respect, I would of course take that into account in the next following edition!-) Alex -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
