On 2011-01-25, Mark Summerfield <l...@qtrac.plus.com> wrote: > On Jan 24, 5:09 pm, santosh hs <santosh.tron...@gmail.com> wrote: >> Hi All, >> i am beginner to python please tell me which is the best available >> reference for beginner to start from novice > > If you want to learn Python 3 and have some prior programming > experience (in any modern procedural or object oriented language), you > might find > "Programming in Python 3" (http://www.qtrac.eu/py3book.html) to be a > good choice. (I'm biased though since I wrote it;-)
I am usually a big fan for O'reilly books and I started learning Python from the first edition of _Learning Python_. It's not a bad book and it will get you started. I cannot speak for the latest edition which seems to contain quite a bit more then the version I read. When Python 3 was released, I decided to try relearn Python 3 from scratch rather then trying to simply figure out the differences between versions. I picked up Mr. Summerfield's book because it seemed to be the first book to cover Python 3 excusively and I was rather impressed. I would definitely recommend it to others. [OT] P.S. to Mark Summerfield. You have been hanging around in the Go Nuts mailing list. Is that any indication that you might be considering writing a book on Go? If you do, you will have at least one customer. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
