On 2006-02-11, Kenneth Xie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > att, thx. A lot of the ideas discussed in Effective C++ et al are things that Python does for us already. C++ works at a much lower layer of abstraction and you need to deal explicitly with freestore for any nontrivial class.
EC++ is mostly about how NOT to crash your programs. The Python Cookbook is a "more pythonic" version of the same idea--proven techniques appropriate to the abstraction level of the language. Design Patterns is worth reading as well, but be careful with it. Many of the ideas that are difficult to do in C++, Java, Smalltalk, etc (singletons come to mind) are trivially easy to do in Python because of how our object model works. Bruce Eckle's "Thinking in Python" gives a pattern introduction explaining how things work in Python that can give you a sprinboard to adapting other patterns from C++ et al. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
