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Python Cookbook from Oreilly???

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Markus Jais

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May 16, 2002, 9:20:05 AM5/16/02
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hi
at amazon.com I saw that there should be a python cookbook published
by oreilly in April 2002, but I can not find it at www.oreilly.com

does anybody if and when this will be published???


for Ruby I have always "The Ruby Way" by Hal Fulton on my desk which is
writtin in a cookbook style. such a book saves a lot of time

this is definitely a book that is missing for python right now.

markus

Gerhard Häring

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May 16, 2002, 9:48:22 AM5/16/02
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In article <ilOE8.9$vd4...@news.ecrc.de>, Markus Jais wrote:
> hi
> at amazon.com I saw that there should be a python cookbook published
> by oreilly in April 2002, but I can not find it at www.oreilly.com
>
> does anybody if and when this will be published???

See the thread following <3cd472d2$0$8508$cc9e...@news.dial.pipex.com>

(Yes, it's postponed)

HTH,

Gerhard

David Ascher

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May 16, 2002, 1:22:46 PM5/16/02
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Markus Jais wrote:

>hi
>at amazon.com I saw that there should be a python cookbook published
>by oreilly in April 2002, but I can not find it at www.oreilly.com
>
>does anybody if and when this will be published???
>

If: YES!

When: Soon.

We're in the copy-editing & production phases, which are done by O'Reilly.

>for Ruby I have always "The Ruby Way" by Hal Fulton on my desk which is
>writtin in a cookbook style. such a book saves a lot of time
>
>this is definitely a book that is missing for python right now.
>
>

Glad to hear you say so!

It was a _lot_ more work for Alex Martelli, me, and the O'Reilly folks
than anyone had planned. I'm quite pleased with where it's ended,
though! Hopefull the readership will be as well.

-- David Ascher
co-editor, Python Cookbook

Alan Runyan

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May 17, 2002, 3:16:55 PM5/17/02
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> Hopefull the readership will be as well.

We will.

I am convinced this book and standard lib will bring thousands of new
programmers to Python. Most people are too lazy and/or busy to learn from
start to finish. They want to open up a tome of recipes, grab the recipe
that closely resembles their problem at hand and munge it into a working
solution. What I think is so great about Python is -- people will be able
to do this with unprecedented ease! After a few recipe experiments people
will have an intuitive feel for the language.

Thanks to all people who pen Python articles, editorials and books. You all
are invaluable.

~runyaga

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