[Python-talk] book recommendations?

[Lloyd Kvam]

On Fri, 2008-03-14 at 16:53 -0400, Peter Dobratz wrote:
(snipped)
> My question is: what general Python books can you recommend?  My first
> inclination is to buy the latest editions of Learning Python and
> Programming Python, and maybe the Python Cookbook (also O'Reilly).

Python in a Nutshell is a bit concise for casual reading, but does a
great job of explaining the language and includes small code examples.

The regular Python documentation is also generally excellent and well
indexed.

> Python & XML
> by Christopher A. Jones and Fred L., Jr. Drake (Paperback - Dec 15, 2001)
With the emergence of elementtree and lxml
	http://codespeak.net/lxml/
this book is pretty obsolete.

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