Practical Python

If you believe one learns more from others than from books and you are a beginner, this book is for you. I always use Python in a hurry. Python pampered me into a lazy learner, but who's to blame? To me, Python is like a friend I am deeply attatched to but never know enough, until I found this book. Yes, even beginners can start USING Python in a week or two. But he/she also knows the difference between his/her programming... Read Full Review

I am currently working on a project which involves a software tool for energy benchmarking. Up until now I have been using an interpreted language (which will go unmentioned, I don't want to start a flame war). Although this language is good for a lot of things, it was becoming increasingly difficult to use it for my project. I felt that the project was getting too big to maintain the code in a orderly way. For a while I have... Read Full Review

I bought this book because I went through the author's online tutorials at his website (www.hetland.org). I enjoyed his writing style there and thought the book should be good as well. The book is even better than I had imagined an introductory programming text could be. I have been dabbling with learning Python for a while now, so the basics of the language and of programming in general were known to me. This book helped... Read Full Review

I'm new to programming (except for BASIC 15 years ago!) and thought I'd start with Python, since it's reputed to be both powerful AND fairly easy. To get started, I went through all the online tutorials I could find, and bought The Python Bible and Quick Python, both of which were slightly beyond my grasp.I bought this book in order to learn some basic XML handling in Python and got SO MUCH MORE! This is how all computer... Read Full Review

I have most of the published python books and have been using python for over a year now. The language is a revalation in its simplicity and extensiveness.This book covers how to use python. The first few chapters introduce the language for beginners but I recommend experienced programmers to glance at the pages for insights into what for me were unknown ways of using python. The whole book just seems to add knowledge and... Read Full Review