I think that this book and the industrial strength "Programming Python" book are excellent;
they both use clear and concise language and useful graphical illustrations to reinforce concepts.
I must say after reading these two books and seeing the elegant power of the Python programming language
, I have become a "Python" convert. The object model is very clean and useful. I think Perl is a decent text parsing/
processing language but the documentation and some of the syntactic features are bit too obscure. The "Programming Perl 2nd
Edition" is written in a desultory and incomprehensible manner. I sincerely hope that Python will be used more extensively
by commercial enterprises in the very near future; I have become annoyed and bored using Perl to build CGI based Internet applications