Dive into Python

Slashdot, AccordianGuy, September 8, 2004
"...may be one of the thinnest programming language books on my shelf, but it's also one of the best."

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"Whether you're an experienced programmer looking to get into Python or grizzled Python veteran who remembers the days when you had to import the string module, Dive Into Python is your 'desert island' Python book." — Joey deVilla, Slashdot contributor (Read the review on Slashdot.org)

"Apress has been profuse in both its quantity and quality of releases—and (this book is) surely worth adding to your technical reading budget for skills development." — Blane Warrene, Technology Notes

"As a complete newbie to the language…I constantly had those little thoughts like, 'this is the way a programming language should be taught.'" — Lasse Koskela , JavaRanch Bartender (Read the 9 horseshoe review)

Python is a new and innovative scripting language. It is set to replace Perl as the programming language of choice for shell scripters, and for serious application developers who want a feature-rich, yet simple language to deploy their products.

Dive Into Python is a hands-on guide to the Python language. Each chapter starts with a real, complete code sample, proceeds to pick it apart and explain the pieces, and then puts it all back together in a summary at the end.

This is the perfect resource for you if you like to jump into languages fast and get going right away. If you’re just starting to learn Python, first pick up a copy of Magnus Lie Hetland's Practical Python.

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Dive Into Python is a hands-on guide to the Python language. Each chapter starts with a real, complete code sample, proceeds to pick it apart and explain the pieces, and then puts it all back together in a summary at the end.

Python is a new and innovative scripting language. It is set to replace Perl as the programming language of choice for shell scripters, and for serious application developers wanting a feature-rich, yet simple language, with which to deploy their products.

This book is not for newbies, for wimps, or For Dummies™. It assumes a lot about you: You know at least one real object-oriented language, such as Java, C#, or Delphi You know at least one other scripting language, such as Perl, Visual Basic, or Javascript

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Python is a new and innovative scripting language. It is set to replace Perl as the programming language of choice for shell scripters, and for serious application developers who want a feature-rich, yet simple language to deploy their products.

�Dive Into Python� is a hands-on guide to the Python language. Each chapter starts with a real, complete code sample, proceeds to pick it apart and explain the pieces, and then puts it all back together in a summary at the end.

This is the perfect resource for you if you like to jump into languages fast and get going right away. If you�re just starting to learn Python, first pick up a copy of Magnus Lie Hetland's �Practical Python� (Apress, 2002).   About the Author:

Mark Pilgrim is an accessibility architect in the IBM Emerging Technologies Group. He is the author of several technical books, including Dive Into Accessibility, a free online tutorial on web accessibility. He lives in North Carolina with his wife and newborn son, and spends his copious free time sunbathing, skydiving, and reading Immanuel Kant's Critique of Pure Reason.

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Practical Python

This is the perfect resource for you if you like to jump into languages fast and get going right away. If you�re just starting to learn Python, first pick up a copy of Magnus Lie Hetland's.

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