Sebastian Bassi <sba...@clubdelarazon.org> writes: > Hello, I want to announce that the publisher of "Python for > Bioinformatis" (CRC Press) allowed me to publish a chapter from my > book. > I decided to publish the chapter about "Python and databases". I think > it may be useful for somebody. > The official announcement and download link is here: > http://py4bio.com/2010/05/28/python_databases_mysql_sqlite/ > For more information about the book: www.tinyurl.com/biopython
I feel more than uncomfortable with example code that uses: user="root" (e.g. p291). I never get why people write a short (IMO) /bad/ intro to databases while there are books out there that do a way better job. To me such chapters are just a way to get more pages :-(. (=make the book more expensive = less money to buy a /good/ book on databases) I would love to see more technical books that start at page 1 with the topic, not with an introduction to the language (170+ pages) and some other stuff that IMO shouldn't be there (MySQL introduction, XML, etc.). What I would expect, based on the title is: p 175-222 p 315-456 p 539-552 This would probably make the book a bit cheaper, so one can buy a good book on MySQL, a good book on XML, and a good book on Python. (Or maybe one already has those, like me). IMO, YMMV -- John Bokma j3b Hacking & Hiking in Mexico - http://johnbokma.com/ http://castleamber.com/ - Perl & Python Development -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
