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Wednesday, October 9, 2002

Python Cookbook review is fair

The Python Cookbook. Nice2Cats writes "Python is something of a programmer's dream and an author's ... [Slashdot]

I've worked through some of this book and looked over its entirety. I agree with Nice2Cats (though I am canine-preferred myself) that this is a useful book if you've learned enough Python to do more than toy stuff.

I found the Text chapter particularly fascinating and helpful and I'm about to tackle the one on OOP where Python's implementation is just different enough from my accustomed OO language, Smalltalk, that I need to twist my head about a bit and slam it into a well to get its attention focused.
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