The von Rossum tutorial is definitely the place to start. For some reason I don't really like the O'Reilly books on python, even though I am usually a fan. I found Core Python Programming by Wesley Chun quite helpful and easy to read; I suppose most sage developers might consider it dumbed-down but I think it all depends on where you are starting from.
cheers, Marshall Hampton On Jan 15, 1:52 pm, "William Stein" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Jan 15, 2008 11:35 AM, John Cremona <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > Thanks for the hints. I did look at "Dive into..." a while back (it > > is recommended on the Sage website after all) but for some reason did > > not get on with it (the very frist "complete, working Python program" > > just left me cold), so I got the basics from the online Puthon > > tutorial (which I do recommend) and then found those books on the > > shelf at the place where I work.... > > Indeed. I very very strongly recommend the free online Python tutorial: > http://docs.python.org/tut/ > This was the first thing I just read cover-to-cover when learning Python. > > William --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To post to this group, send email to sage-support@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-support URLs: http://sage.math.washington.edu/sage/ and http://sage.scipy.org/sage/ -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
