Re: Book review / advise

2010-06-24 Thread Stephen Hansen
On Wed, Jun 23, 2010 at 10:22 AM, John Bokma wrote: > Stephen Hansen writes: > > > On 6/22/10 9:48 PM, John Bokma wrote: > > Its when you package it up in such a way that the buyer doesn't realize > > what they're buying, that's where the problem comes-- and that's what is > > happening quite a

Re: Book review / advise

2010-06-23 Thread John Bokma
Stephen Hansen writes: > On 6/22/10 9:48 PM, John Bokma wrote: [..] > Its when you package it up in such a way that the buyer doesn't realize > what they're buying, that's where the problem comes-- and that's what is > happening quite a lot these days. Which is not the case here. > If it look

Re: Book review / advise

2010-06-23 Thread Stephen Hansen
On 6/22/10 9:45 PM, John Bokma wrote: > Stephen Hansen writes: > >> I *have* seen people burned by confusion over situations *extremely* >> similar to this; > > But is it? You didn't even ask yourself that question. Yes. I did. I don't really make a point of publishing internal dialog on maili

Re: Book review / advise

2010-06-22 Thread Stephen Hansen
On 6/22/10 9:48 PM, John Bokma wrote: > alex23 writes: >> Given the current propensity for people to scrape web sites like >> Wikipedia and publish them on Amazon without the rights holders' >> consent, > > Can you explain were exactly it states that you can't print a book out > of wikipedia arti

Re: Book review / advise

2010-06-22 Thread John Bokma
alex23 writes: > John Bokma wrote: >> Now let's hope that your asshat behaviour doesn't stop companies like >> this to continue to print those books. I have considered to buy the >> complete set a few times. And I hope you're not calling me naive... > > Given the current propensity for people to

Re: Book review / advise

2010-06-22 Thread John Bokma
Stephen Hansen writes: > I *have* seen people burned by confusion over situations *extremely* > similar to this; But is it? You didn't even ask yourself that question. > If being concerned about fellow Python-folks possibly getting ripped off > makes me an asshat, so be it. Go y'know-what yours

Re: Book review / advise

2010-06-22 Thread Stephen Hansen
On 6/22/10 1:09 PM, John Bokma wrote: > Now let's hope that your asshat behaviour doesn't stop companies like > this to continue to print those books. I have considered to buy the > complete set a few times. And I hope you're not calling me naive... Excuse me? I *have* seen people burned by confu

Re: Book review / advise

2010-06-22 Thread alex23
John Bokma wrote: > Now let's hope that your asshat behaviour doesn't stop companies like > this to continue to print those books. I have considered to buy the > complete set a few times. And I hope you're not calling me naive... Given the current propensity for people to scrape web sites like Wi

Re: Book review / advise

2010-06-22 Thread John Bokma
Stephen Hansen writes: > On 6/22/10 6:48 AM, lallous wrote: >> Hello, >> >> I wonder if anyone read this: >> http://www.amazon.com/PYTHON-2-6-Extending-Embedding-documentation/dp/1441419608/ref=sr_1_7?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1277214352&sr=1-7 >> or this: >> http://www.amazon.com/Python-Extending-Emb

Re: Book review / advise

2010-06-22 Thread Stephen Hansen
On 6/22/10 11:01 AM, Terry Reedy wrote: > On 6/22/2010 11:49 AM, Stephen Hansen wrote: >> Uhh, that looks like a scam. Someone scraped the Python docs and bundled >> it up as a "book" to sell to naive people for outrageous prices; > > Various people have asked on this list for printed versions of

Re: Book review / advise

2010-06-22 Thread Terry Reedy
On 6/22/2010 11:49 AM, Stephen Hansen wrote: On 6/22/10 6:48 AM, lallous wrote: Hello, I wonder if anyone read this: http://www.amazon.com/PYTHON-2-6-Extending-Embedding-documentation/dp/1441419608/ref=sr_1_7?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1277214352&sr=1-7 or this: http://www.amazon.com/Python-Extending-

Re: Book review / advise

2010-06-22 Thread Stephen Hansen
On 6/22/10 6:48 AM, lallous wrote: > Hello, > > I wonder if anyone read this: > http://www.amazon.com/PYTHON-2-6-Extending-Embedding-documentation/dp/1441419608/ref=sr_1_7?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1277214352&sr=1-7 > or this: > http://www.amazon.com/Python-Extending-Embedding-Documentation-Manual/dp/14

Re: Book review / advise

2010-06-22 Thread lallous
On Jun 22, 4:49 pm, James Mills wrote: > On Wed, Jun 23, 2010 at 12:27 AM, lallous wrote: > > For me it is not a matter of competency to seek a book: organized, > > structured and uniform way of presenting information. > > > Nonetheless, I always refer to the sources to get my questions > > answe

Re: Book review / advise

2010-06-22 Thread James Mills
On Wed, Jun 23, 2010 at 12:27 AM, lallous wrote: > For me it is not a matter of competency to seek a book: organized, > structured and uniform way of presenting information. > > Nonetheless, I always refer to the sources to get my questions > answered...but a book (with the qualities I mentioned a

Re: Book review / advise

2010-06-22 Thread Tim Golden
On 22/06/2010 15:27, lallous wrote: Hi James, For me it is not a matter of competency to seek a book: organized, structured and uniform way of presenting information. Nonetheless, I always refer to the sources to get my questions answered...but a book (with the qualities I mentioned above) woul

Re: Book review / advise

2010-06-22 Thread lallous
Hi James, For me it is not a matter of competency to seek a book: organized, structured and uniform way of presenting information. Nonetheless, I always refer to the sources to get my questions answered...but a book (with the qualities I mentioned above) would make everyone's life easier. :) On

Re: Book review / advise

2010-06-22 Thread James Mills
On Wed, Jun 23, 2010 at 12:14 AM, lallous wrote: > Well, it seems the printed version of the manual. Can anyone suggest a > nice book to learn more about the Python C Api? It's not really a book, but how about the source ? If you're a competent C programmer you're not really going to even need a

Re: Book review / advise

2010-06-22 Thread lallous
Hi again, Well, it seems the printed version of the manual. Can anyone suggest a nice book to learn more about the Python C Api? Thanks, Elias -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Book review / advise

2010-06-22 Thread lallous
Hello, I wonder if anyone read this: http://www.amazon.com/PYTHON-2-6-Extending-Embedding-documentation/dp/1441419608/ref=sr_1_7?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1277214352&sr=1-7 or this: http://www.amazon.com/Python-Extending-Embedding-Documentation-Manual/dp/1441412743/ref=pd_sim_b_3 Are these books just a