On Wed, Feb 14, 2001 at 06:57:35PM +0200, Moshe Zadka wrote: > On Tue, 13 Feb 2001 20:24:00 -0500, "Tim Peters" <tim.one@home.com> wrote: > > Not me -- there's nothing in them that I as a potential user don't need to > > know. But then I think the Library docs are too terse in general. Indeed, > > Fredrick makes part of his living selling a 300-page book supplying > > desperately needed Library examples <0.5 wink>. > I'm sorry, Tim, that's just too true. You should be appologizing to Fred, not Tim :) While I agree with the both of you, I'm not sure if expanding the library reference is going to help the problem. I think what's missing is a library *tutorial*. The reference is exactly that, a reference, and if we expand the reference we'll end up cursing it ourself, should we ever need it. (okay, so noone here needs the reference anymore <wink> except me, but when looking at the reference, I like the terse descriptions of the modules. They're just reminders anyway.) I remember when I'd finished the Python tutorial and wondered where to go next. I tried reading the library reference, but it was boring and most of it not interesting (since it isn't built up to go from useful/common -> rare, but just a list of all modules ordered by 'service'.) I ended up doing the slow and cheap version of Fredrik's book: reading python-list ;) I'll write the library tutorial once I finish the 'from-foo-import-* considered harmful' chapter ;-) -- Thomas Wouters <thomas@xs4all.net> Hi! I'm a .signature virus! copy me into your .signature file to help me spread!
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