John Salerno wrote: > hi all. are there any recommendations for an intro book to python that > is up-to-date for the latest version?
I do not know how much up-to-date they are but I have to suggest you these books: - Learning Python By Mark Lutz and David Ascher published by O'Reilly Most likely the best introductory book on Python - Python Cookbook By Alex Martelli and David Ascher published by O'Reilly By far the most useful book on Python after your first week of real use of this language Also, the fundamental - Programming Python (the 2nd edition ONLY) By Mark Lutz published by O'Reilly Is very useful for understanding the most inner details of Python > would reading a book from a year or two ago cause me to miss much? No. Python did not changed too much since rel. 1.5. You can still use a book published in 2001 as a introductory book (as I do). The changes are exhaustively described both in the official documentation and in the very fine "what's new in..." articles written by Andrew Kuchlin for every new release (see www.python.org). CU ----------------------------------- Alessandro Bottoni -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
