Re: Book recommendation? For getting up to date

2025-02-16 Thread Salvador Mirzo via Python-list
Jan Erik Moström writes: > On 16 Feb 2025, at 20:47, rbowman via Python-list wrote: > >> David Beasley's 'Python Distilled'. The author doesn't enumerate Python 3 >> features specifically but as the title suggests hits the important >> concepts. > > Thanks, I'll take a look I can reinforce this

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2025-02-20 Thread Salvador Mirzo via Python-list
Lawrence D'Oliveiro writes: > On Wed, 19 Feb 2025 22:42:23 -0500, songbird wrote: > >> no need for me to print any programming books. > > I gave up on paper-based programming documentation a long time ago. There > is way too much of it that I need, and it changes too fast. So I keep it > all on

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2025-03-02 Thread Salvador Mirzo via Python-list
rbowman writes: > On Thu, 20 Feb 2025 21:51:51 - (UTC), Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote: > >> On Thu, 20 Feb 2025 10:05:32 -0300, Salvador Mirzo wrote: >> >>> It's much more pleasurable (to me) to read books off-screen. >> >> You can’t do searches, though. > > For non-fiction a decent index does

Re: Book recommendation? For getting up to date (Posting On Python-List Prohibited)

2025-03-02 Thread Salvador Mirzo via Python-list
Lawrence D'Oliveiro writes: > On Thu, 20 Feb 2025 10:05:32 -0300, Salvador Mirzo wrote: > >> It's much more pleasurable (to me) to read books off-screen. > > You can’t do searches, though. That's quite right, which is why I also love to have an ebook form of them. -- https://mail.python.org/mai