Anyways, to rephrase, could someone kindly mention any of their
preferred Python books, websites, tutorials etc to help me get to an
intermediate/advanced level? Something that would help me add
functionality to Ubiquity, say.
I may be alone in this, but Alex Martelli's book ("Python in a
nutshell"?) on Python 2.2 and a bit of 2.3, plus the official
documentation, plus this group, is all I think I need.
But I had a lot of Unix, C, C++ and Perl experience to help me.

/Jorgen

I find Alex Martellis "Python Cookbook" excellent/invaluable and ( and also his Nutshell book mentioned above ) and depending on your application domain, I liked:

1) Hans Petter Langtangen: Python Scripting for Computational Science
A truly excellent book, not only with respect to Python Scripting , but also on how to avoid paying license fees by using opensource tools as an engineer ( plotting, graphing, gui dev etc ). Very good , pratical introduction to Python with careful and non-trivial examples and exercises.

2) There is a book at Apress on using Python and matplotlib ( amongst other ) "Beginning Python Visualization" which is not as comprehensive as reference 1) but useful , especially for beginners who wants to visualize data from an engineers background

3) "Programming for the semantic web" Oreilly is a very pratical and interesting guide to things like OWL, triplestore, logic, reasoning, data mining and it is amongst the very few books on these topics I have seen that has working code examples

4) "Natural language priocessing with Python " Oreilly is also a pratical book with lots of working code if you are interested in data mining, text searching and natural language tasks. It is based on a rather large opensource library for natural language processing ( sorry forgot the exact name,but easy to find on the net)

All these book make you feel warm and confortable if you have ever tried to do these things in Perl, C++ or Java

Peter
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