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

kalevi@kolttonen.fi (Kalevi Kolttonen) wrote or quoted:

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.

  I think the book market offers Python books large and small for
  people to choose according to their taste.

  You chose to focus on a book that does not please you because
  it's too large. Well, you could as well have chosen a tiny
  Python book and say it's too small! So your comment is more
  a criticism of your own choice of focus than of that book.

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

  Well, I don't know that specific book, and so I cannot report
  its contents. But I don't think its author is named "O'Reilly".