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Re: [Omaha.pm] Book suggestions for a Perl programmer wanting to learn Python?

Thanks for the reminder,  I should have known there was an Omaha PUG.

Dan

On Thu, Sep 13, 2012 at 10:22 PM, Jay Hannah <jay@jays.net> wrote:
On Sep 13, 2012, at 10:11 PM, Dan Linder <dan@linder.org> wrote:
> For a project I'm deciding to branch out and force myself to do much of it in Python.  I'm well versed in Perl (functional and object oriented), anyone have any suggestions for a Python book to pick up that isn't going to spend the first 1/3 of the book describing what a variable is and other absolute beginner issues?

I have a long history of loving O'Reilly books, so I'd chew on this:

   http://oreilly.com/python/

I've read none of those, so for first-hand knowledge you might want to ping the Python User Group for their thoughts (if you haven't already).

HTH,

j


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