Path: csiph.com!usenet.pasdenom.info!news.redatomik.org!newsfeed.xs4all.nl!newsfeed4a.news.xs4all.nl!xs4all!newsgate.cistron.nl!newsgate.news.xs4all.nl!post.news.xs4all.nl!not-for-mail Return-Path: X-Original-To: python-list@python.org Delivered-To: python-list@mail.python.org X-Spam-Status: OK 0.078 X-Spam-Evidence: '*H*': 0.85; '*S*': 0.00; 'subject:Python': 0.06; 'formatting': 0.09; 'guys.': 0.09; 'received:80.91': 0.09; 'received:80.91.229': 0.09; 'received:gmane.org': 0.09; 'received:list': 0.09; 'worse': 0.09; 'python': 0.11; 'books': 0.15; '(at)': 0.16; '*any*': 0.16; 'packt': 0.16; 'received:80.91.229.3': 0.16; 'received:plane.gmane.org': 0.16; 'language': 0.16; 'wrote:': 0.18; 'thu,': 0.19; 'header:User- Agent:1': 0.23; 'file.': 0.24; "i've": 0.25; 'right.': 0.26; 'least': 0.26; 'gets': 0.27; 'header:X-Complaints-To:1': 0.27; 'header:In-Reply-To:1': 0.27; 'am,': 0.29; 'code': 0.31; '(although': 0.31; '-0700,': 0.31; 'amazon': 0.34; 'subject: (': 0.35; 'something': 0.35; 'point.': 0.35; 'but': 0.35; 'there': 0.35; 'bought': 0.36; 'subject:New': 0.37; 'easily': 0.37; 'gmail': 0.38; 'others.': 0.38; 'to:addr:python-list': 0.38; 'anything': 0.39; 'bad': 0.39; 'to:addr:python.org': 0.39; 'received:org': 0.40; 'up,': 0.60; 'tell': 0.60; 'reach': 0.63; 'decided': 0.64; 'purchase': 0.65; 'buying': 0.65; 'charset:windows-1252': 0.65; 'side': 0.67; 'benefit': 0.68; 'rendering': 0.68; 'published': 0.71; 'quality': 0.72; 'guides': 0.74; '2015': 0.84; 'books.': 0.84; 'kindle': 0.84; 'messed': 0.84; 'pdf.': 0.84; 'received:myvzw.com': 0.84; 'absolutely': 0.87; 'hand,': 0.93; 'period.': 0.95 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: python-list@python.org From: memilanuk Subject: Re: New to Python - block grouping (spaces) Date: Thu, 16 Apr 2015 11:28:46 -0700 References: <9fc57fc9-0399-4ff3-882a-d041f02827d8@googlegroups.com> <6580b5d5-92f5-4bfa-b1d0-889c69fe82bb@googlegroups.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 64.sub-70-199-132.myvzw.com User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:31.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/31.6.0 In-Reply-To: X-BeenThere: python-list@python.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.20 Precedence: list List-Id: General discussion list for the Python programming language List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Newsgroups: comp.lang.python Message-ID: Lines: 34 NNTP-Posting-Host: 2001:888:2000:d::a6 X-Trace: 1429208945 news.xs4all.nl 2940 [2001:888:2000:d::a6]:53818 X-Complaints-To: abuse@xs4all.nl Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.python:89047 On 04/16/2015 11:08 AM, alister wrote: > On Thu, 16 Apr 2015 08:01:45 -0700, Blake McBride wrote: > >> As a side note, I bought a few books on Python from Amazon for use on my >> Kindle. At least one of the books has the formatting for the Kindle >> messed up rendering the meaning of the program useless. >> >> Case in point. >> >> Blake > > A poor quality book > You can write bad books for any language > > I do sympathise as this is something you cannot easily tell before > purchase (although there as so many good guides available on line I don't > think there is much benefit in buying a book) Some publishers are worse about this than others. Packt (www.packtpub.com) has some decent material, but absolutely incompetent when it comes to formatting python code in a Kindle .mobi file. I don't think I've ever seen *any* errata published for any of their books. I long since decided that anything I see from Packt that I want to read... I might find it on Amazon, but I go to Packt's site and purchase the PDF. They have a harder time screwing that up, apparently. O'Reilly, on the other hand, gets it right. Period. -- Shiny! Let's be bad guys. Reach me @ memilanuk (at) gmail dot com