On 7 Aug, 21:10, Mike Driscoll <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Aug 7, 1:12 pm, Beliavsky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > On Aug 6, 4:08 pm, Mike Driscoll <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > On Aug 6, 2:56 pm, Edward Cormier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > Which computer books are the best to begin learning Python 2.5 with? > > > > I've heard that Learning Python 3rd Edition is a good choice - can > > > > anyone give any more advice on this? > > > > > Thanks. > > > > There's lots of good books to read, including a few online ones. A lot > > > of people like "Dive Into Python" (http://diveintopython.org/). If you > > > want LOTS of information and some good code examples, Lutz's > > > "Programming Python 3rd Ed" is great. > > > I have the 2nd edition. Has the 3rd edition been rewritten so that all > > of its code will be valid in Python 3? I'd prefer not to buy Python > > books that will become obsolete. > > As Wojtek already pointed out, Lutz's 3rd edition is written with 2.x > in mind. I think it's 2.4 or 2.5, but I forget exactly which. Still, > most programming books are "obsolete" almost from the day their > printed. I'm not aware of any Python 3.0 books...
I'm writing a Python 3 book that will be published as soon as possible after Python 3.0 final is released (so hopefully November). It assumes programming experience in _some_ language (not necessarily Python 2). "Programming in Python 3: A Complete Introduction to the Python Language" ISBN 0137129297 The table of contents and a link to some (out of date) sample text is here: http://www.qtrac.eu/py3book.html -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
