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Good books on python

Posted: February 15th, 2009, 7:18 pm
by hhhmmm
After doing some random scripting with Python, I want to actually learn how to use it properly. So I am looking for a decent book on Python. I would use it mostly for numerical stuff, but also some file i/o and simple gui's. I do have some but not extensive programming experience in java and matlab. Any recommendations ?

Good books on python

Posted: February 15th, 2009, 8:31 pm
by ThomasJ
For the basics just google "Python cheat sheet"; for file I/O specifically check out the docs on the "os" module at python.org/doc/For numerical stuff you'll want to check out SciPy and NumPy. There's an ebook on NumPy hereO'Reilly publishes a few books on Python if you prefer actual paper to the web; pretty much anything from them is bound to be good.

Good books on python

Posted: February 16th, 2009, 7:43 am
by WilmottBookshop
Python books by O'Reilly