Internet Programming with Python

Rating:
Summary: great book, the CD is out-of-date
Review: Awesome book, I liked Chapter 3 which instantly gets you into useful programming stuff. The book also takes you from beginner-level to advanced stuff like extending and embedding python, sort of the python equivalent of the Perl camel book (programming perl) and panther book (advanced perl programming) rolled into one. I think there's enough stuff on net programming to justify the title. The CD-ROM in my copy of the book has python 1.3, the current version is 1.5 something. The book too might be dated, but I skimmed the latest ORA python book, Learning Python, and I think this is more my speed.

Rating:
Summary: great book, the CD is out-of-date
Review: I had read "Programming Python" (Mark Lutz) befrie getting this book, and I expected a lot more on network programming than what this book provides. I would definitely call the title "Internet Programming with Python" false advertising.

Aside from this (very annoying) shortcoming, the book might provide a good overview of the Python programming language. I didn't go over all the syntax, GUI and other topics as I already had covered them in the other book.

I would recommend Programming Python over this book.

Rating:
Summary: A masterpiece
Review: Instead of giving this book an opportunity to become a best-seller, the publisher let it become out of print. An unfortunate effect is that my students could not buy the book, and have to share the library copies. This book is beautifully written, enormously useful and fun to read because of authors' good sense of humor. Chapter 7: "Generating HTML" gives one of the best introductions to object orientation and dynamic features of Python. I urge the authors and the publisher to work quickly to make the book available.

Rating:
Summary: A masterpiece
Review: Instead of giving this book an opportunity to become a best-seller, the publisher let it become out of print. An unfortunate effect is that my students could not buy the book, and have to share the library copies. This book is beautifully written, enormously useful and fun to read because of authors' good sense of humor. Chapter 7: "Generating HTML" gives one of the best introductions to object orientation and dynamic features of Python. I urge the authors and the publisher to work quickly to make the book available.

Rating:
Summary: Gentle Intro to Python.
Review: The book's title probably has been chosen to attract attention. That said, it is an excellent book. The standard book, Programming Python by Mark Lutz, may bog neophytes down.

The first half of the book is an introduction to the language and the second half applications loosely connected to the Internet.

The language is worth knowing, but I'd have liked a book with exercises.