Mon, 29 Aug 2005
Python Cookbook
Alex Martelli, Anna Martelli Ravenscroft, David Ascher,
Python Cookbook 2nd Edition, O'Reilly
This is quite a serious cookbook. It is more of a Larousse
thing than say "Sushi in Ten Minutes" or "Five Easy Snacks for
4AM".
Let's just randomly pick out some recipes from the nearly
eight hundred pages of content... Showing a Progress Indicator
on a text console, Converting time zones, Terminating a thread,
Connecting to IRC and logging messages to disk, Importing a dynamically
generated module, and on it goes. There are many, many, more like
these and all are presented in a Problem, Solution (with code),
Discussion format.
This probably not the first Python book you should buy but it
well might be the second if you are at all serious about it.
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