Practical Python is quite a good book. And to re-iterate again, teh humongous tutorial list which has Hetland's Instant python among others:
http://www.awaretek.com/tutorials.html Brian van den Broek wrote: > 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
