Michael Lange wrote: > On Wed, 15 Feb 2006 22:05:39 +1100 > "John Connors" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have a copy of Teach Yourself Python in 24 Hours, printed in 2000 so I guess it's virtually usless but i was hoping to learn some of the basics from it. > > I don't think the book is completely useless, it just misses the features > added to python since 1.5.2;
Python 1.5.2 is getting pretty long in the tooth. The Python developers are very good at maintaining backward compatibility, so most of what you learn will be correct and work, but some of it will no longer be idiomatic usage and you will not learn about the many new features that have been introduced in subsequent versions. At the very least you should skim the "What's New with Python 2.x" documents to get an idea what you are missing. Older versions of this document can be found here: http://www.amk.ca/python/ The Python 2.4 version comes with the Python docs. You might also want to look at an on-line tutorial to get some more modern usage. Several are listed here: http://wiki.python.org/moin/BeginnersGuide/NonProgrammers Both Learning to Program and A Byte of Python are popular with beginners. Kent _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
