Python Cookbook by Alex Martelli, Anna Ravenscroft, David Ascher

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  • 807pp
  • Sales Rank: 153,902

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  • ISBN-13: 9780596007973
  • Edition Description: 2nd Edition
  • Edition Number: 2
  • Pub. Date: March 2005
  • Publisher: O'Reilly Media, Incorporated

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  • Pub. Date: March 2005
  • Publisher: O'Reilly Media, Incorporated
  • Format: Textbook Paperback, 807pp
  • Sales Rank: 153,902

Synopsis

This is a collection of problems, solutions, and practical examples written by Python programmers in the style of the popular "Perl Cookbook." The snippets of code can be lifted directly out of the recipes in this book.

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Biography

Martelli spent eight years with IBM Research. He then spent 13 years as a senior software consultant at think3 inc, developing libraries, network protocols, GUI engines, event frameworks, and web access frontends.

Ascher is the lead for Python projects at ActiveState. David holds a B.S. in physics and a Ph.D. in cognitive science, both from Brown University.

Ravenscroft has a background in training and mentoring, particularly in office technologies.

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Good Cookbookby Computer_Science_House

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February 05, 2009: I started reading through the Python Cookbook as a beginner with very little experience in Python but fluent in several other languages ranging from Object Oriented to Functional languages. I found the book was very good to learn from by example. I would recommend it to anyone who has had programming experience before and is just starting out on Python to quickly grasp new areas of the language. I would also recommend this to intermediate Python programmers as a resource for being able to quickly identify common problems and elegant solutions to them. I found the book very easy to understand, despite my lack of prior exposure to the language and I felt like it was a very good learning experience. I'm looking forward to using Python more for my day to day tasks now that I have been introduced to many examples of how powerful a language it can really be.

A must-have for Pythonistas!by Anonymous

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October 21, 2002: This book is more like _Effective_C_ than a cookbook. Each item is more than a code snippet to solve a specific problem, though said snippets abound. The author of each short bit goes into illuminating depth about their chosen topic. I've been programming in Python since 1.3 and I learned several new things in the first several pages! I've not yet finished it, but I did go ahead and read a few "recipies" from each chapter before posting this review. As an added bonus, each chapter is introduced by a Python luminary. Bottom line: This book will sit on my desk, not on my shelf.