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This is an EXACT reproduction of a book published before 1923. This IS NOT an OCR'd book with strange characters, introduced typographical errors, and jumbled words.This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book. ... Read more

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• This tutorial offers readers a thorough introduction to programming in Python 2.4, the portable, interpreted, object-oriented programming language that combines power with clear syntax
• Beginning programmers will quickly learn to develop robust, reliable, and reusable Python applications for Web development, scientific applications, and system tasks for users or administrators
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The most absurd examples ever!!
Really?! An Omelette is the best example you could come up with? fridge contents? types of cheese? wanted food? Who programs that stuff? Is that the level of abstract that your brain can handle? What is wrong with you authors?!

Somebody gave me this book for free. I just browsed through its first 70-80 pages. I am afraid I have to through it away! You know?! With the rest of the spoiled food!!!!!

Here is a suggestion to the authors. Pick up a Murach book to see how a programming book is written!!
Here is another suggestion to the authors. How about if you use something close to a real life application? like a teacher wants to keep record of its students grades, or a company needs to keeps track of its emplyees, salaries, etc.

Not authors
A choice excerpt:

"The best way to start writing a class is to decide what you want it to do. For this, a Python-based model
of refrigerator behaviors, Fridge, is the first thing, and it should be basic. While you're thinking about
it, focus on what you will need a particular Fridge object to do for your own purposes. You want
enough behaviors available that this object can be used to make food, yet you don't want to worry about
aspects of real-life refrigerators that won't be included in a simplified example, such as temperature, the
freezer, defrosting, and electricity--all of these are unnecessary details that would only complicate our
purpose here. For now, let's just add to the docstring for the Fridge class to define the behaviors that
you will be building soon."

Did an editor even look at this?

Introductory text
As you can guess from the name this is an introductory text.Check out Summerfield (Programming in Python 3) and Lutz (Learning Python) for reference texts. As an introduction the book does a good job. It is structured coherently and flows well. The writing style needs some improvement but if you can gloss over that then this book could be for you.

If you are an experienced programmer, this is NOT the book for you
It may be useful for someone learning Python as their introduction to programming.I've programmed in C for years.I was looking for an introductory book that would also be a good reference to the Python language.This is not it.Every time I go to the book to find something I come up empty and end up looking in the free download version of Learning Python.

below average book
The book is very annoying, actually i found the style of the authors rather heavy,easy topics are explained difficult to understand, which shows the luck of experience in writing technical books.This actually should be the difference between an Internet tutorial and a book.
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A gentleman of the law = Robert Richardson.With a table of cases, index, and final advertisement leaf.

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MAURICE GIRODIAS / Introduction
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