Python Books
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Practical Python
Published 18 years ago includes sample chapter
by Magnus Lie Hetland, Apress
My plan to start seriously learning Python begins with Practical Python... This book properly blends programming concepts with design concepts...and cements its lessons with entertaining examples. — Craig Banker, Baton Rouge Linux User Group Practical Python offers a highly useful guide to the Python programming language. In disarmingly readable prose, author Magnus Lie Hetland guides you through those concepts of most importance to the budding Python developer.
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Eric Meyer on CSS: Mastering the Language of Web Design (Voices That Matter)
Published 18 years ago
by Eric Meyer, New Riders Press
There are several other books on the market that serve as in-depth technical guides or reference books for CSS. None, however, take a more hands-on approach and use practical examples to teach readers how to solve the problems they face in designing with CSS - until now. Eric Meyer provides a variety of carefully crafted projects that teach how to use CSS and why particular methods were chosen. The web site includes all of the files needed to complete the tutorials in the book.
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Python Web Programming (Landmark)
Published 19 years ago
by Steve Holden, Sams
Python Web Programming is a practical introduction to building networked systems in the object-oriented framework of the Python language. It shows how to leverage the powerful Python libraries to build systems with less programming effort and easier maintenance. It leaves involved discussion of the Python language by itself to other books and dives right into using Python within web enables applications.
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Jython for Java Programmers (Landmark)
Published 19 years ago
by Robert Bill, Sams
Robert Bill's Jython for Java Programmers from New Riders is an essential introduction to the complexities of the merger between two popular object-oriented languages, Python and Java. It is directed toward Java programmers who want to incorporate Python rather than vice versa, but the utter symmetry of merging two object-oriented languages creates an Escheresque problem in perspective. It is like two snakes gobbling each other up.Let's sort this out historically.
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XML Processing with Perl, Python, and PHP
Published 19 years ago
by Martin C. Brown, Sybex Inc
Aimed at experienced programmers, Processing with Perl, Python, and PHP is a guide to processing XML with popular scripting languages. The author is a strong advocate of script, as opposed to C++ or Java, on the grounds of speed of development, ease of use, and cross-platform support. With explanations and examples, he shows how to parse XML using Perl, Python, or PHP and offers brief notes on other scripting languages.
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Python (Visual QuickStart Guide)
Published 19 years ago
by Chris Fehily, Peachpit Press
UntitledNamed after the Monty Python comedy troupe, Python is an interpreted, open-source, object-oriented programming language. It's also free and runs portably on Windows, Mac OS, Unix, and other operating systems. Python can be used for all manner of programming tasks, from CGI scripts to full-fledged applications.
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Python 2.1 Bible
Published 19 years ago
by Dave Brueck, Stephen Tanner, Wiley
The Python 2.1 Bible provides the only complete Python language reference on the market and includes all the information and software that developers need to use Python as a rapid application development tool. The Python 2.1 Bible fills a critical void in the Python reference market. Although it includes a complete Python language reference section, it is still geared towards those of you who already have some programming experience.
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The Complete Monty Python's Flying Circus; All the Words Volume One
Published 31 years ago
by Graham Chapman, Eric Idle, Terry Gilliam, Terry Jones, John Cleese, Michael Palin, Pantheon
If you haven't yet memorized any of Monty Python's scripts, here's your chance. It's difficult to read this book without breaking into a broken English accent -- or at least without laughing aloud. Alarm luckless pedestrians as you gesticulate wildly with an halibut, learn how to determine whether a parrot is really dead or not... "Nudge, nudge. Snap snap. Grin, grin, wink, wink, say no more".