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Guido van Rossum's extensive write-up of Python's design and
evolution. Covers the whole life-span of Python, from the famous
Christmas Vacation That Never Ended to The Short Period of Introducing
New Features Without Too Much Consideration aka. How List
Comprehensions Made Into the Language and finally to future visions of
Python after the version 3000. (Note that the book was partly written
in the future.)
The "directors cut" of the highly useful Python
Standard Library contains all the posts by Mr. Lundh that
were censored from the original version of the book. Here, in the
uncensored version, Mr. Lundh explains the secrets of basic Python to
newbies with a blunt and sarcastic style leaving no doubts of his
sharp writing style. One almost feels sorry for the clueless newbies
that get cruel yet helpful words from Mr. Lundh, who explains in the
introduction that most of the posts in the uncensored version were
written before his first morning coffee or after 10 hour long C
debugging sessions. "And, let's face it, some people really are a bit
stupid," adds Mr. Lundh.
This extensive 12 book series is a must-have to every Zope developer
needing thorough understanding on what's going on beneath the covers
of Zope. The introductory parts, from I to IV, teach you, for example,
how to fluently read and write raw Python pickle data, how to organize
and design a thousand-fold multiple-inheritance tree in just few years
and how to use every aspect of the Python programming language and
still manage to run Zope in new Python versions.
Kilgore
Trout: Tim Peters: My ten years on auto-pilot on
python-list; or, How the Turing Test was beaten.
The fictitious character in Kurt Vonnegut's books, scifi-writer
Kilgore Trout, writes a fascinating story of a robot (and its copies)
that was programmed to help newbies on a mailing list devoted to
programming language Python. The robot is designed to beat the
challenge set by Alan Turing in his Turing Test. Timbot, as he is
ironically referred to on python-list, beats the test "hands" down and
fools the whole programming community by expanding "his" scope to
enhancing and fixing the Python language and its implementation.
Michael Hudson:
How I Fell in Love with Metaclasses; or, Bytecodehacks just
weren't enough.
Where Michael Hudson gives a thorough treatment of his long journey in
trying to control every aspect of his programming
environment. "Everything just seemed too easy in Python and I
wanted to see if there are ways I can get my head explode programming
Python. I succeeded, I must confess" Mr. Hudson starts his
book. Thereon unfolds the story of a brilliant young hacker who Just
Can't Get Enough. Along with the book comes ear-plugs and a helmet
which keep your brains in one piece.
After the highly successful Python
Cookbook comes the long-awaited sequel from
Mr. Richardson. Richardson explains over a hundred delightful dessert
recipes which complete dinners for which Python Cookbook
provided the main course. Recipes include the infamous chili-flavored
tiramisu, The Long And Complicated Yet Deadly Simple Dessert That Has
A Really Long Name and n + 1 dimensional ginger bread.
This book reveals all the secrets of the universum-wide conspiracy
controlled by the PSU. Faassen and Mulder explain the conspiracy, its
connections to FBI, CIA, KGB and C++ Standards Committee and Time
Travel Trip Maps in beautiful pie charts, Venn-diagrams, n
dimensional Bezier-curves and plain English. The story starts with the
explanation of the origins oNO CARRIER
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