On 12 jan, 21:04, 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.
It wouldn't make any sens to port the K&R stuff to Python - different languages, different uses, different problems... I mean, C is a low- level language, mostly useful for low-level system programming, while Python is a very high level language mostly useful for application programming and Q&D scripting. So the applicative examples from K&R are such no-brainers in Python they wouldn't teach you much, and the more low-level examples (memory handling etc) just don't make sens in Python because that's definitively not something you'd write in Python. But anyway: if you're looking for more real-life-like examples, Mark Lutz's "Programming Python" might be worth a look. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
