On Jan 12, 4:04 pm, Landon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > One thing I wonder about is the examples these books use to teach the > concepts. I found myself really attached to K&R because the end of > section projects were utilities that I would find be able to find > useful in day to day work such as a version of wc and a program that > would take collapse all consecutive whitespace in a document into one > space. I could just use the projects from K&R, but I imagine a Python > book would have a better selection that highlight Python's abilities. > > On another note, I would prefer to have a paper book so I don't have > to keep switching back and forth between documents on my computer.
You don't need to switch back and forth ... if you use Crunchy! http://code.google.com/p/crunchy To see it in action, http://showmedo.com/videos/video?name=1430000&fromSeriesID=143 (the third video in that series shows how to quickly get started using the official Python tutorial). André -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
