Re: Python (was Re: I did not inhale)

In comp.unix.programmer Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> wrote:

On Thu, 15 Aug 2024 19:48:36 -0000 (UTC), Kalevi Kolttonen wrote:
 

The last I checked, the O'Reilly Python book is just absolutely
*MASSIVE*. The language has a huge number of features now ...

 
No, it hasn’t. The core language reference spec is only a small fraction
of, say, the Java language spec.

Okay. I must confess that just seeing the book's size discouraged
me from buying or reading it. Programming Python, 4th Edition by
O'Reilly has whopping 1628 pages! This has to be one of the longest
programming books ever published.

It’s just that you can do so many things with Python. And that is down to
the huge variety of off-the-shelf addon libraries that build on that core
language spec. It has to be a strong, very solidly founded core in order
to be such a versatile basis for these addons, and it is.

So are you saying that most of the 1628 pages describe libraries
instead of the core language?

br,
KK