- Paperback: 656 pages
- Publisher: O'Reilly Media; 1 edition (10 Mar 2003)
- Language French
- ISBN-10: 0596001886
- ISBN-13: 978-0596001889
- Product Dimensions: 22.6 x 15.2 x 2.8 cm
- Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 506,338 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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"Brave beginners will be well served by this title, which provides an intelligent, fast paced intro to core topics." - Martin Howse, LinuxUser & Developer, Issue 30 "I whole-heartedly recommend this book to all Python programmers. It is a very concise and informative book, and its small size belies its information content. I would also recommend and suggest this book to any experienced programmers wishing to begin programming in Python, who would enjoy a straight-to-the-point manual on the Python language." - Daire Stockdale, Cvu/ACCU
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Ask any Python aficionado and you'll hear that Python programmers have it all: an elegant language that offers object-oriented programming support, a readable, maintainable syntax, integration with C components, and an enormous collection of precoded standard library and extension modules. Moreover, Python is easy to learn but powerful enough to take on the most ambitious programming challenges. But what Python programmers have lacked is one concise and clear reference resource, with the appropriate measure of guidance in how best to use Python's great power. Now Python in a Nutshell fills this need.
In the tradition of O'Reilly's "In a Nutshell" series, this book offers Python programmers one place to look when they need help remembering or deciphering the syntax of this open source language and its many modules. This comprehensive reference guide makes it easy to look up all the most frequently needed information--not just about the Python language itself, but also the most frequently used parts of the standard library and the most important third-party extensions.
Python in a Nutshell focuses on Python 2.2 (and all its point releases), currently the most stable and widespread Python release. This book includes:
- A fast-paced tutorial on the syntax of the Python language itself
- An explanation of object-oriented programming in Python, covering both the classic and new-style object models
- Coverage of other core topics, including exceptions, modules, strings, and regular expressions
- A quick reference for Python's built-in types and functions, as well as the key modules in the Python standard library, including sys, os, time, thread, math, and socket, among many others
- Reference material on important third-party extensions, such as Numeric and Tkinter
- Information about extending Python and embedding it into other applications
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13 of 13 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
I had been interested in learning python for some time and had tried to wade through the online documentation. Although this was good, it was not quite enough to get me up and running.. This book filled the gap. Although it goes quite quickly in terms of its coverage of different subjects, there is enough to start programming in Python in this book alone, and it has enough detail to stay useful up to the highest levels of expertise. Read in combination with the online python documentation, it is all you need to start programming in Python and to continue improving. Excellently written, concise and up to date. Recommended.
26 of 27 people found the following review helpful
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This is an incredibly good book and covers an enormous amount of ground. You get a potted history of the Python language, a language overview, a guide to OOP and exception handling, modular programming, file manipulation, string manipulation, database programming, threading, GUI development, web development and much, much more. Suprisingly, you can pretty much learn the Python language from the coverage in this book (which is generally not the case for Nutshell books which are aimed by-and-large at the technically savvy). Credit also to the author for his exceptionally clear and concise writing style (which is even more impressive when you consider that Italian is his first language). This may be the only Python book you'll ever need. Certainly it should be the first that you buy.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
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Python is a brilliantly conceived language, but I've been disappointed, on the whole, by books about it. Programmers seem to have so much fun using it that they can't be bothered to write about it properly.
This book is an exception. It gives an excellent, clear overview of the language, and covers the APIs of all the standard libraries. It's detailed yet concise. It doesn't waffle; it concentrates entirely on tasks and doesn't get bogged down in conceptual airy-fairyness.
I have one minor complaint: method argument data types are not always explicitly stated. Occasionally this necessitates a bit of extra reading or trial-and-error. I wouldn't knock a star of for it though.
This book is an exception. It gives an excellent, clear overview of the language, and covers the APIs of all the standard libraries. It's detailed yet concise. It doesn't waffle; it concentrates entirely on tasks and doesn't get bogged down in conceptual airy-fairyness.
I have one minor complaint: method argument data types are not always explicitly stated. Occasionally this necessitates a bit of extra reading or trial-and-error. I wouldn't knock a star of for it though.
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Python in a Nutshell is a excellent reference book, all python programmer must have one in the desk. Read more
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This is the book you need to have in your hand when coding Python. It was clearly written by somebody who has "done it", not just read the docs.
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