Python in a Nutshell -- Book vs Web

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W. eWatson

I read an Amazon of Python in a Nutshell. The first edition is supposedly
much like the web site. What web site? The second edition apparently adds
more to the book than the web site.
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Matimus

I read an Amazon of Python in a Nutshell. The first edition is supposedly
much like the web site. What web site? The second edition apparently adds
more to the book than the web site.

O'Reilly seems to just read all of the available documentation and
regurgitate it in book form. The "in a nutshell" series being the
worst offender. Most of "Python in a Nutshell" tells you the same
information that you can find at http://docs.python.org, which is
probably "the web site" being referenced.

Matt
 
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Fredrik Lundh

Cameron said:
No. No, to an almost libelous extent.

No matter what you write about, there's always a certain subcategory of
potential readers who insist that collection, editing, filtering,
structuring, clarification, and the author's real-life experience of the
topic he's writing about has no value at all. My guess is that they
don't value their own time very highly.

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Michele Simionato

Insightful.  Well, I find it insightful; perhaps it's
a personal blindness on my part.  I expect programmers
to understand, for example, that two lines of code can
be a good day's production, in some circumstances

My best days are the ones were I have a negative count of lines, i.e.
I am able to remove cruft ;)
 

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