> > I don't have my copy yet. Can you give any guidance on how the 2'nd
> > edition compares to the 1'st edition?
Here is an excerpt from the preface (typing errors are mine):
If you already own the first edition, you may be wondering whether
you need this second edition, too. We think the answer is "yes." The
first edition had 245 recipes; we kep 146 of those (with lots of
editing in almost all cases), and added 192 new ones, for a total of
338 recipes in this second e4dition. So, over half of the recipes in
this edition are complete,ly new, and all the recipes are updated
to apply to today's Python -- releases 2.3 and 2.4. Indeed, this
update is the main factor which lets us have almost 100 more recipes
in a book of about the same size. The first edition covered all
versions from 1.5.2 (one sometimes earlier) to 2.2; this one focuses
fimly on 2.3 and 2.4. Thianks to the greater port of today's Python,
and, even more4, thanks to the fact that this edition avoids the
"historical" treatises about how you had to do things in Python
versions releases 5 or more years ago, we were able to provide
substantially more currently relevant recipes and information in
roughtly the same amount of space.
Trent
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