Programming Python (Nutshell Handbook)   Mark Lutz     US-Preisempfehlung*: $44.95 Preis:                     DM 96,31 EUR 49,24 Versandfertig in 24 Stunden. Taschenbuch - 904 Seiten (Oktober 1996) O'Reilly & Associates Inc.; ISBN: 1565921976 Amazon.de Verkaufsrang 8.504

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Daniel E. Doherty aus Shawnee Mission, KS , 3. Mai 2000
Long Road to a Small House
Like so many reviewers here, I was disappointed in this book. I did think the introduction showed promise, but the book moved along so tediously, I kept finding myself saying "yea, yea, yea---get on with it already!"

I wish Mr. Lutz would keep in mind that a reader can re-read a point not understood the first time around; it's really irritating to have the author repeat and repeat and repeat the same damn point over and over.

Perhaps this point bears repeating. Just kidding, but if I wrote like Mr. Lutz I would assume you didn't get it the first time around and make you suffer through three renditions of the same litte essay.

Oh, for the straight forward exposition of Kernighan and Plauger or the subtle wit of Larry Wall---now those guys can write!

doliwa@mpip-mainz.mpg.de aus mainz, deutschland , 22. Februar 2000
Leider enttaeuschend
Ich kann mich in der Beurteilung den Vorgaengern nur anschliessen. Das Buch enttaeuscht aufgrund der Tatsache, dass es fuer ein Tutorial zu lang und fuer ein Referenzhandbuch zu ungeordnet ist. Hinzu kommt, dass es, aufgrund des Erscheinungsdatums, in interessanten Bereichen wie etwa der SWIG-Benutzung nicht mehr aktuell ist.

Per aus Zurich, Switzerland , 9. Januar 2000
Thick book, somwhat chaotic
Python is a great programming language and Mark Lutz did a lot for it, by writing this big textbook. Still, I would have wished the book to be more systematic, especially having chapter titles which later on helped me to find things again. In his next book: "Learning Python" he implemented more logic:-)

Thomas Pickering aus Frankfurt, Germany , 3. Januar 2000
Poor show from the Nutshell guys
I really like the O´Reilly books - I work as a professional programmer and the number of times they have helped me out is countless. That made this book all the more disappointing.

The style is all over the place - halfway between the "Dummies" series (which are very good - in their place) and the traditional O´Reilly "for programmers, by programmers" style. While I wouldn´t carp about style of a technical book if it were at least clear unfortunately the prose here is so bad it makes the book almost impenetrable. I just couldn´t get the hang of the language from this - and wouldn´t advise others to try. There have got ot be easier ways than this to learn.

Tom

Jonathan , 22. Dezember 1999
Not a good place to start
This is one of O'Reilly's worst books.

In the introduction, where Mark is giving a demo the Python language, he gives Programming examples without explaining the constructs the programs use or how they achieve their goals in terms of those constructs. It is impossible to understand the points he is trying to make.

The editing of the book is just plain sloppy. The beginning is not what a beginning should be and I am so put off by the beginning I hesitate to read the rest of the book.

I'm not sure why O'Reilly let this book get to press. Most of the books I have from them are excellent.

Patrick Tufts , 10. November 1999
poorly organized introduction to python
I thought this would be similar to Programming Perl, both a good introduction to the language *and* a decent reference. Unfortunately, it does neither task well.

It fails as a reference because 1) it is poorly organized: information on each concept (printing, for example), is scattered throughout the book; 2) the index is atrocious. There is no way to find the key description of any part of the language using the index, and I often find important concepts in the book that are not in the index.

The poor index, combined with the scattered organization, means I'm constantly frustrated when I want to look up some particular element of the language.

As an introduction, the book is OK. I would have liked to see some meatier code examples. As another reviewer mentioned, the examples are more about the syntax of the language than actual applications that you might learn from. This is a style point -- if you learn best from large chunks of example code, this is not the book for you.

Also, key modules (sys and math, for example) are barely mentioned.

--Pat / zippy@cs.brandeis.edu

Eine Leserin oder ein Leser aus Ann Arbor, Michigan , 7. September 1999
Intended for non-programmers.
As a professional programmer, I have always been pleased with the quality of O'Reilly titles. Unfortunately, this book was my first disappointment. The tone of the book is that of an introduction intended for non-programmers. In terms of actual hard, factual information, this book leaves a lot to be desired. I would perhaps recommend it to anyone needing to learn Python with no other programming experience, but definitely not to anyone else.

Eine Leserin oder ein Leser aus New Mexico , 22. August 1999
Nutshell? What kind of tree was that?
Okay...for the hard-core, knowledgeable programmer, this is book will be annoying--it takes you through the basics of programming, OOP and so on. The sagacious hacker will know all of these things. Good for you.

For the rest of us, this book is a God-send. I, for one, am a failed programmer--I've poked at C, C++, VBA, VB...all to no avail. It was all a tad too confusing for me.

Programming Python, however, showed me how this all works and--added to Learning Python and the Python Pocket Reference--I'm set. There may be some other small features not included in these books, but I'll worry about them when I get there.

For those of you that are already there--why are you using Python in the first place?

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