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4.0 out of 5 stars
useful book
i was using this book quite heavily for reference when i was programming in python. it was very useful and easy to find what i needed. the book was slightly worn, but i guess that is what is expected considering it was a used book.
Published on June 4, 2009 by Jeff Sakurai
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2.0 out of 5 stars
poorly organized introduction to python
I thought this would be similar to Programming Perl, both a good introduction to the language *and* a decent reference. Unfortunately, it does neither task well. It fails as a reference because 1) it is poorly organized: information on each concept (printing, for example), is scattered throughout the book; 2) the index is atrocious. There is no way to find the key...
Published on November 9, 1999
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53 of 65 people found the following review helpful:
2.0 out of 5 stars
poorly organized introduction to python,
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This review is from: Programming Python (Paperback)
I thought this would be similar to Programming Perl, both a good introduction to the language *and* a decent reference. Unfortunately, it does neither task well.It fails as a reference because 1) it is poorly organized: information on each concept (printing, for example), is scattered throughout the book; 2) the index is atrocious. There is no way to find the key description of any part of the language using the index, and I often find important concepts in the book that are not in the index. The poor index, combined with the scattered organization, means I'm constantly frustrated when I want to look up some particular element of the language. As an introduction, the book is OK. I would have liked to see some meatier code examples. As another reviewer mentioned, the examples are more about the syntax of the language than actual applications that you might learn from. This is a style point -- if you learn best from large chunks of example code, this is not the book for you. Also, key modules (sys and math, for example) are barely mentioned. --Pat / zippy@cs.brandeis.edu
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i was using this book quite heavily for reference when i was programming in python. it was very useful and easy to find what i needed. the book was slightly worn, but i guess that is what is expected considering it was a used book.
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Programming Python by Mark Lutz (Paperback - Oct. 1996)
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