On Jun 3, 6:42 pm, Mike Driscoll <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Jun 3, 5:45 am, V <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Hi Matt, > > > and thank you very much for your answer. > > > > Hm, depends of course, how good your programming skills are in the > > > languages you knwo already, but I rely on the book "Beginning Python - > > > From Novice to Professional" by Magnus Lie Hetland, published by Apress. > > > I think that I'm interested in a more advance book, ideally one that > > talk of the Python gotchas, traps, pitfall, idioms, performance, > > stile, and so on. I really like the style used from Scott Meyers in > > his Effective C++ series, or from Herb Sutter's Exceptional C++, but > > after a quick look I did not find anything similar for Python... > > > Best regards. > > I agree with Rick. "Core Python Programming" by Chun is pretty good. > However, Lutz's "Programming Python" is also very good and has a few > big example programs to walk through. You might also find the Python > Cookbooks handy. > > There's also "Python Power!" by Matt Telles, which is more of a > reference book although not quite as dry as "Python Essential > Reference" was. > > Mike
The Python Cookbook - printed version - I've read it - is a very good book on the lines of what you're looking for, IMO. If you go by its title, it might not sound like a book in the Effective Series (I've read Effective C++ too and agree that its excellent), but it actually is something quite like Effective C++, since its contributors include many very good Python developers, including Alex Martelli, David Ascher, Tim Peters, Raymond Hettinger, to name just a few. Though the explicit goal of the book is not to be a book about idiomatic Python, the point is that it ends up being a lot like that, since most of the contributors write idiomatic Python. For example, one idiom that's mentioned a lot in the book, is about one of Python's greatest strengths - "smooth signature-based polymorphism" - with good examples to substantiate it. Though not a book, you may also find the Python articles by David Mertz on IBM developerWorks very useful. Go to http://www.ibm.com/developerworks and search for either "Charming Python" - the name of his Python column there - or his name - to get the articles. HTH Vasudev ------- Vasudev Ram Biz site: http://www.dancingbison.com Quick PDF creation toolkit (in Python, open source): http://www.dancingbison.com/products.html -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
