Thomas Heller wrote: > Mark Summerfield schrieb: >> Just a follow-up to say that the book has now been published in the >> U.S. >> It is now in stock at InformIT, and should reach other stores, e.g., >> Amazon, in a week or so. >> >> Also, the introduction, the first few pages of the first chapter, the >> whole of chapter 12 (regular expressions), and the index are now >> available for free download in a PDF from here: >> http://www.informit.com/store/product.aspx?isbn=0137129297 > > Question from a non-native english speaker: is this now valid english? > > "One of Python’s great strengths" > ^ > "and also teaches Python’s functional programming features" > ^ > "The book’s approach is wholly practical" > ^ It always has been valid English. The apostrophe is only omitted from personal pronouns (hers, its, and so on).
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