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Book:   Python in a Nutshell
Subject:   An excellent reference
Date:   2006-07-27 08:50:14
From:   msoulier
Rating:  StarStarStarStarStar

I picked this up as it had great material on what had changed since I first got into Python with 1.5.2. Considering that the Zen of Python is barely being followed as the core language has feature upon feature heaped upon it, a book like this helps poor programmers simply wanting to use the language keep up with the changes.


I particularly like the section on the new object model, explaining the new __new__() method and summarizing the changes of subclassing object very nicely.


Still, Python changes so quickly that a book like this becomes stale very quickly. O'Reilly should likely offer some kind of upgrade program to stay current in cases like this.


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