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From: warlock at eskimo.com (Jim Richardson)
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Date: 4 Apr 1999 17:45:54 GMT
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Subject: Is Python dying?
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References: <7dos4m$usi$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com> <MPG.1169efcbb228590998968a@news.ma.ultranet.com> <gary.922776946@cs.su.oz.au> <37009C12.4C0E6B0B@earth.ox.ac.uk> <roy-3003990734080001@qwerky.med.nyu.edu> <922837384snz@vision25.demon.co.uk> <ewgM2.6813$0a.15214@news.rdc1.on.wave.home.com> <7dtbu1$rpn$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com> <37025110.1BA742B@appliedbiometrics.com>
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On Wed, 31 Mar 1999 16:45:04 GMT,
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Christian Tismer, in the persona of <tismer at appliedbiometrics.com>,
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brought forth the following words...:
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>aaron_watters at my-dejanews.com wrote:
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>> > > K&R is one of the best programming books I have read. A Python equivalent
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>> > > would be nice.
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>> I think the Python equivalent are Guido's tutorial and reference
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>> manual. He did such a good job that all other books had to add
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>> a lot more stuff in order to not be totally redundant. Note that
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>> there is no K&R equivalent of the library ref unless you consider
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>> Unix man pages [3].
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>> Sorry you can't get them in bound form and put them on your shelf.
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>> -- Aaron Watters
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>Well, isn't that an idea?
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>If somebody (which needn't be Guido himself) just takes
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>the standard documentation, does some touch-up of the layout,
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>and turns it into a printable book?
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>The "GvR Official Python Library and Reference Book" would appear
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>with every new release of Python. I could imagine this would
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>sell good, for Guido and the publisher.
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>At least I would love to have that on my desk, hard-covered
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>and bound, not just in electronic form or printed by myself.
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>ciao - chris
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I used mpage to condense them down to 2 pages per 8x11 sheet, and
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then printed odd/even, cycled the paper throgh the laser printer twice,
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bound them with those little springy plastic spiral things, and
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viola, a 5x8, Reference with the tutorial, the api, &etc all at once.
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Took something a little over 100 pages. I would have printed 4 to a page
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but I couldn't figure how to make mpage do the registering properly for
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2 stage double sided printing.
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--
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Jim Richardson
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www.eskimo.com/~warlock
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All hail Eris
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"Linux, because a cpu is a terrible thing to waste."
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