Michele Simionato said unto the world upon 21/06/2005 07:58: > qwwee: > >>for a certain argument I'd prefer an application fully >>explained (also if not covering all the features) to a more general >>tutorial with only brief and unrelated code snippets. >>Unfortunately, that's not the way things are normally done, because it >>is much harder to build a useful application and fully comment it > > > A part the Cookbook, I know of at least two Python books taking the > approach you describe: > > 1. Dive into Python (Pilgrim) > 2. Programming Python (Lutz) > > Dive into Python is free (and even translated in Italian on > www.python.it, IIRC) > > Michele Simionato >
Not free, but: Practical Python, published by the same press as the Pilgrim, steps through incremental approaches to large (by book standards) applications. From the author's site: "Hetland devotes the second half of the book to project development, taking great care to choose a series of ten increasingly complex applications that are of timely and wide-ranging interest to burgeoning and expert developers alike. Project focus includes automated document conversion, newsgroup administration, graphical PDF document generation, remote document maintenance, the creation of a peer-to-peer system with XML-RPC, database integration, and GUI and game development. " http://hetland.org/writing/practical-python/ best, Brian vdB -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
