Now that Python 3 final has been released I thought it would be a good time to mention that there's a new book to go with it:
"Programming in Python 3: A Complete Introduction to the Python Language" ISBN 0137129297 http://www.qtrac.eu/py3book.html I've been working on this for more than a year, testing the examples against every Python 3 alpha and beta, and against the final release (using Python's unit test and doctest modules of course:). The book has just gone into production and should be available in print at the end of this month in the U.S., and a month or two later elsewhere. The book's web page has links to a draft of the introduction and to safari books online where you can read extracts. The book is aimed at a wide audience, but assumes some programming experience (not necessarily Python, not necessarily object-oriented). It teaches solid procedural style programming, then builds on that to teach solid object-oriented programming, and then goes on to more advanced topics (e.g., including a nice way to create validated attributes by combining class decorators with descriptors). But even newcomers to Python 3 should be able to write useful (although small and basic) programs after reading chapter 1, and then go on to create larger and more sophisticated programs as they work through the chapters. -- Mark Summerfield, Qtrac Ltd, www.qtrac.eu -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
