Re: Books?

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[ Mark Lawrence wrote on Wed 22.Aug'12 at  8:43:58 +0100 ]

> On 22/08/2012 02:36, Anonymous Group wrote:
> > What books do you recomend for learning python? Preferably free and/or
> > online.
> >
> 
> Search for the Alan Gauld tutorial.  I've never used it myself, but OTOH 
> I've never heard anybody complain about it!!!
> 
> As someone else has already mentioned it, I'd highly recommend Dive Into 
> Python

I bought "Beginning Python - Using Python 2.6 and 3.1" by James Payne, published by Wrox www.wrox.com. I've found it quite good so far, it's pretty comprehensive.

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