Hi, A new edition of my Python 3 book will be available in the U.S. next month, and elsewhere in December or January:
"Programming in Python 3 (Second Edition): A Complete Introduction to the Python Language" ISBN 0321680561 http://www.qtrac.eu/py3book.html 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. The book has been fully revised and updated and now covers Python 3.0 and 3.1, and has been extended with new chapters on debugging, testing, and profiling, and on parsing (including coverage of the PyParsing and PLY modules), as well as a new section on coroutines in the advanced chapter. I was motivated to produce a second edition so soon after the first because it seems to me that Python's core developers would rather people switched to the 3.1 series and bypass 3.0 altogether and I wanted to support that. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
