Now for Something Completely Different…

by on April 4, 2006

I think we have a few geek readers, so I thought I’d take advantage of that to ask: can anyone suggest a good introduction to Python? I’m fluent in Perl and semi-proficient with C and Java, so a book geared toward procedurally-oriented programmers would be ideal. I’m particularly interested in mastering the Lispy aspects of the language, so a book that talks about its functional-programming attributes would be great.

I see that O’Reilly’s Python books have titles that mirror the Canonical O’Reilly Perl books. Are they any good?

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Tim Lee / Timothy B. Lee (Contributor, 2004-2009) is an adjunct scholar at the Cato Institute. He is currently a PhD student and a member of the Center for Information Technology Policy at Princeton University. He contributes regularly to a variety of online publications, including Ars Technica, Techdirt, Cato @ Liberty, and The Angry Blog. He has been a Mac bigot since 1984, a Unix, vi, and Perl bigot since 1998, and a sworn enemy of HTML-formatted email for as long as certain companies have thought that was a good idea. You can reach him by email at leex1008@umn.edu.

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