Hi, I'm delighted to announce that a new edition of my Python 3 book is now available in the U.S.
"Programming in Python 3 (Second Edition): A Complete Introduction to the Python Language" ISBN 0321680561 http://www.qtrac.eu/py3book.html The book has been fully revised and updated and now covers both Python 3.0 and 3.1, and with the language moratorium (PEP 3003), this second edition should be useful for many years to come. And in addition to the thorough updating, the book 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. 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. All the examples are available for download from the book's web site. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
