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Python is optimized for quality, productivity, portability, and
integration. Hundreds of thousands of Python developers around the
world rely on Python for Internet scripting, systems programming,
user interfaces, and product customization. Python is available on
all major computing platforms, including commercial versions of
Unix, Linux, Windows, and Mac OS. It's portable, powerful, and
remarkably easy to use. It's also an interpreted language, designed
for rapid application development and deployment. Python Pocket
Reference, 2nd Edition is a companion volume to two O'Reilly
Animal Guides, Programming Python, 2nd Edition and
Learning Python. It summarizes Python statements and types,
built-in functions, commonly used library modules, and other
prominent Python language features. This pocket reference covers
the latest Python release 2.2, and provides quick access to just
what you're looking for. It is a short, concise reference for the
most commonly used libraries and tools. The new edition also
includes new summary material for Python's GUI, Internet, and
database programming tools. The author, Mark Lutz, is a Python
luminary-who has been on the Python scene since its inception.
Editorial ReviewsProduct DescriptionPython is optimized for quality, productivity, portability, and integration. Hundreds of thousands of Python developers around the world rely on Python for Internet scripting, systems programming, user interfaces, and product customization. Python is available on all major computing platforms, including commercial versions of Unix, Linux, Windows, and Mac OS. It's portable, powerful, and remarkably easy to use. It's also an interpreted language, designed for rapid application development and deployment. Python Pocket Reference, 2nd Edition is a companion volume to two O'Reilly Animal Guides, Programming Python, 2nd Edition and Learning Python. It summarizes Python statements and types, built-in functions, commonly used library modules, and other prominent Python language features. This pocket reference covers the latest Python release 2.2, and provides quick access to just what you're looking for. It is a short, concise reference for the most commonly used libraries and tools. The new edition also includes new summary material for Python's GUI, Internet, and database programming tools. The author, Mark Lutz, is a Python luminary-who has been on the Python scene since its inception. |
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Reader Reviews From Amazon (Ranked by 'Helpfulness') Average Customer Rating: based on 13 reviews. One of the greatest computer books of all time, 2008-10-06 Reviewer rating: Python is a fast and easy to use language, though learning how to think in python, especially if coming from a more c-style language can take a while regardless of what book you're reading. This book won't help you with that. What it will do, is provide you with most (if not all) of the most-advanced features of python in a way that is really easy to digest for an intermediate/upper-beginner level python programmer. This book explains things that are not easy to find on the web or not apparent that they even exist in python (because, let's face it, python can be pretty magical at times). This book can be the catalyst that puts you well on your way to becoming an advanced python programmer. And all that from a tiny reference book! | Useless, 2008-09-23 Reviewer rating: After reading the excellent C++ Pocket Reference, I decided that this book was worth a try, but I was disappointed.
The last half of this book is a list of module functions, that are MUCH more easily accessed thrugh the online documentation. I wish it was more a reference about the language than about the built-in modules. I don't remember (and I can't find it in the book index!) reading explicitly how to add an attribute to a class, or other language-specific operations.
Being a pocket reference, the language should be concise, but sometimes it is so obscure to be nearly incomprehensible.
Let me also point out that it is more than three years old, so it was not updated to cover Python 2.5, and of couse the upcoming 2.6 and 3.0. Furthermore it tries to cover many versions, with even some references to the 9-year old 1.5 release. I believe the latest would have been enough.
In no way this can replace the modules online documentation, not even as a quick reference. | Great reference - now with an index!, 2007-11-21 Reviewer rating: I read various reviews complaining about the lack of an index. Well, it does have one now and it complements perfectly what is a fantastic quick reference for many of your Python needs, from built-in modules to regular expressions. Of course, it does not include the formal grammar of the language, a complete reference of libraries available or anything other than quick pointers for someone who already knows what Python is but is not a guru yet (although anyone can forget how to open a file from time to time). | Meets its goals, 2007-09-24 Reviewer rating: This is a great book for anyone who uses Python, especially for programmers at that level of Python competence after the beginner stage but short of a master's fluency. It provides a brief but clearly organized summary of Python basics: the language, primitive data structures, printf and other control codes, and the basic, everyday subset of the support libraries. And, since the editors apparently listened to criticism of earlier editions, the third editions includes a useful index as well as table of contents.
Some readers will be disappointed that it's not the book that it never meant to be. It never meant to be a tutorial or text book, it never meant to be a full specification of the language and libraries, and it never meant to be an encyclopedic description of the many available libraries. Decide what you want: if that's a quick reminder of Python's most useful basics, then this book will meet your needs.
-- wiredweird | It has no index!, 2007-09-17 Reviewer rating: I concur with the other reviewers that this book contains useful information but IT HAS NO INDEX, and FINDING that useful information is non trivial.
What were O'Reillys thinking? If a third edition ever appears, and if it has an index I'd be glad to buy it as the book does seem to pack a lot of information into a small compass. |
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