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On 08/04/2016 01:23 AM, Lawrence D’Oliveiro wrote:
> On Friday, July 22, 2016 at 2:38:10 AM UTC+12, Chris Angelico wrote:
>> On Fri, Jul 22, 2016 at 12:22 AM,  sigmaphine1914 wrote:
>>> Beginning Python: using Python 2.6 and Python 3.1. By James Payne
>>>
>>> Part II.
>>
>> Ugh, that's extremely old now.
> 
> That’s why I’ve come to the conclusion it’s a waste of time buying books on computing topics. They start to reek of decay while they’re still on the shelf.

Except for old Unix books!  I've got an old book on sed and awk that
will likely be in date for years to come!  There's also an old book on
vi, another on regular expression.  So some things are invaluable
references.  Moving targets like Python, that's another story of course!