Fwd: O'Reilly Releases "Python Standard Library"

[Jim]

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Subject: O'Reilly Releases "Python Standard Library"
Date: Thu, 24 May 2001 16:15:17 -0700 (PDT)
From: "Denise Olliffe" <deniseo@oreilly.com>
To: farli@qwest.net


For Immediate Release
May 24, 2001
Review copies available
FYI: While Denise Olliffe is away from the office, please send review
copy requests ONLY to Marsee Henon at marsee@oreilly.com. All other
correspondence should go to Denise Olliffe at deniseo@oreilly.com.


THREE THOUSAND QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS SHOW
WHAT PYTHON PROGRAMMERS REALLY WANT


Python expert Fredrik Lundh has spent hundreds of hours in recent years
answering questions posted by programmers on the popular Python
newsgroup, comp.lang.python. Python, known for its clean syntax and
object orientation, is a modular language that imports most useful
functions from the extensive library of programming modules that is
distributed with the language. These modules are a collection of
commonly used procedures that can be pasted into a Python script rather
than written from scratch. In his just-released book, "Python Standard
Library," (O'Reilly, US $29.95), Lundh provides tested, accurate
documentation of all the modules in the Python Standard Library, along
with more than 300 annotated example scripts using the modules, based
on the author's work with thousands of questions and answers from the
Python newsgroup.

"Python Standard Library" distills the best parts from over 3,000
newsgroup messages. As Lundh explains in the preface of his book,
"Maybe someone found a module that might be exactly what he wanted, but
he couldn't really figure out how to use it. Maybe someone had picked
the wrong module for the task. Or maybe someone tried to reinvent the
wheel. Often, a short sample script could be much more helpful than a
pointer to the reference documentation."

Lundh's specialty is providing short sample scripts that demonstrate
the use of a module in a way that programmers can understand. Lundh
explains, "I've worked hard to make the scripts both understandable and
adaptable. I've intentionally kept the annotations as short as
possible. If you want more background, there's plenty of reference
material shipped with most Python distributions. In this book, the
emphasis is on the code."

Lundh's book is a no-nonsense, no-fluff reference work for the serious
Python programmer. "Python Standard Library" documents all the new
modules and related information for Python 2.0, the first new major
release of Python in four years, including:

--All major forms of data representation
--Support for threads and pipes
--All important file formats, including XML and HTML
--Support for major Internet applications like mail (MIME) and news
--Database and persistent storage

Fredrik Lundh, an active member of the Python community and a frequent
contributor to the Python newsgroups, is an expert on the use of Python
with images and graphics and is the creator of the Python Imaging
Library (PIL). Lundh is a principal of Secret Labs, Inc. the creators
of PythonWorks, and integrated development environment (IDE) for
Python.


Chapter 5, "File Formats," is available free online at:
http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/pythonsl/chapter/ch05.html

For more information about the book, including Table of Contents,
index, author bio, and samples, see:
http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/pythonsl/index.html

For a cover graphic in jpeg format, go to:
ftp://ftp.ora.com/pub/graphics/book_covers/hi-res/0596000960.jpg

Registration has opened for O'Reilly's Open Source Convention
in San Diego, July 23-27, 2001. For more information, see:
http://conferences.oreilly.com/oscon/

And for specific Python tutorials and sessions, see:
http://conferences.oreillynet.com/cs/os2001/pub/10/python_tutorials.html
http://conferences.oreillynet.com/cs/os2001/pub/w/os2001/sessions_python.h
tml


Python Standard Library
By Fredrik Lundh
May 2001
ISBN 0-596-00096-0, 281 pages, $29.95 (US)
order@oreilly.com
1-800-998-9938
http://www.oreilly.com

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