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From: johngrayson at ome.com (John Grayson)
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Date: Thu, 08 Apr 1999 23:08:05 GMT
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Subject: Is Python Dying?
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Message-ID: <370D36ED.8A270DE9@ome.com>
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| Now that you mentioned it, I remember hearing that someone was
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| writeing a Python TKinter book......what the hell ever happened to
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|that?!?!
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I don't know about *that* one, but I can say there are two new Python
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books on the way from Manning Publications.
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Ken MacDonald's "The Quick Python Book" has been through its reviews and
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has been revised. Right now it is in final technical review and once
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complete the Publisher will begin production.
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I reviewed the ms and can say that it will be a great book for
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programmers new to Python. The first part illustrates the key features
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of Python with some good examples. Then, it goes on to demonstrate how
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to build meaningful applications, including Tkinter GUIs, Windows/COM
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and interfacing Python and Java. You can get some more details at
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http://www.manning.com.
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I'm at various stages of completion of chapters for "Python and Tkinter
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Programming", which has just completed a review of the partial
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manuscript. This book is intended for experienced programmers, who
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probably are getting to know Python pretty well (or have read "Quick
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Python"!), and have a need to build applications or prototypes in Python
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and Tkinter.
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P+TkP starts with some introductions to Python and Tkinter to give
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context and then documents Tkinter widgets and functions, using some
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(hopefully) realistic examples. Creating many types of GUI's, front
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panels and machines, interfacing TCP/IP, ODBC and CORBA, graphic design
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and many other topics are illustrated with full examples, with detailed
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explanation of the key points of the code. In fact, the
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longer-than-usual examples are a key feature of the book; this is
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intended to provide the reader with some concrete examples that might be
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useful as templates for their own prototypes and applications.
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As an appendix, there is a complete Tk to Tkinter mapping, intended to
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allow Tcl/Tk programmers to make use of Tkinter (!) and to enable
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Tkinter programmers to make better use of the Tk man pages. Also Pmw
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widgets feature prominently in the examples.
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So, Is Python dying?
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... not a chance!
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