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Re: eBook Review: Quality Python Development

Chris Worthington — Sun, 13 May 2012 09:40:18 -0000

Can you recommend a book that can take someone from beginning to intermediate Python programming?

I took some programming classes in college, and since then I've been reading basic books on Python. I can create loops, load modules, have a good understanding of items like __main__, etc. What would be the next step for doing something a little more serious? It's getting a little boring reading how to take a string, reverse it, make it all caps, etc.

Re: eBook Review: Quality Python Development

Mel Hague — Fri, 11 May 2012 10:14:19 -0000

I am not a spammer, I'm just a writer trying to get on.
Mel Hague

Re: eBook Review: Quality Python Development

ProgMan — Fri, 11 May 2012 09:57:35 -0000

HaHa, Mel appears to be a clever spammer, all he needed to add was a thank you to his wife and kids, and God of course - that would have qualified as an acceptance speech for his award, maybe a brief resume'.

My next book: Die Spammers, All of You! - available in hardback, paperback, pdf, txt, doc, docx, rtf, png, jpg, ... and Kindle.

Sorry, back to Python programming :)

Re: eBook Review: Quality Python Development

driscollis — Fri, 11 May 2012 09:33:51 -0000

Congratulations on being a successful writer! If you hadn't noticed, this is a blog devoted to the Python programming language. I'm not sure my audience would be a good fit for one of your books. Thanks though!

Re: Website Automation with Python, Firefox and Selenium

driscollis — Fri, 11 May 2012 09:32:08 -0000

You're the second person to mention a project I've never heard of. Hopefully I'll find some time in the near future to check them both out. Thanks!

Re: Website Automation with Python, Firefox and Selenium

Fabio Miranda Costa — Thu, 10 May 2012 12:42:24 -0000

You really should try Splinter http://splinter.cobrateam.info...

Re: eBook Review: Quality Python Development

Mel Hague — Thu, 10 May 2012 07:47:44 -0000

I have written 3 western novels, a horror novel and a sci-fi novel all of which are available on Amazon and Kindle. My western novel TWISTED RIVER has been nominated for a Global eBook Award. If I sent you a printed copy would you be interested in reviewing it?
Cheers
Mel Hague author of EMPORIUM OF DEATH

Re: wxPython: Adding and Removing Widgets Dynamically

driscollis — Mon, 07 May 2012 13:09:50 -0000

I'm not completely sure, but I think Layout() calls Update and possibly Refresh itself. Try just calling Layout and see if that does everything you need.

Re: wxPython: Adding and Removing Widgets Dynamically

Tormod Landet — Mon, 07 May 2012 09:05:51 -0000

I normally do

panel.Freeze()
# modify ...
sizer.Layout()
panel.Refresh()
panel.Update()
panel.Thaw()

Seems to work OK, but it could be that your way is better?

Re: Website Automation with Python, Firefox and Selenium

Neal Young — Sun, 06 May 2012 12:43:20 -0000

Ghost.py - http://jeanphix.me/Ghost.py/

Re: wxPython: Adding and Removing Widgets Dynamically

driscollis — Sun, 06 May 2012 08:40:31 -0000

As I mentioned in the article, I find that Fit sometimes makes the layout look kind of odd. In this example, it made the frame too small to see the entire title of the frame. I have seen it make some widgets a little too small for my liking as well. I think it can override my size choices for some widgets, which is pretty annoying if you required that size. Robin told me some reasons why he doesn't use it much, but I can't recall them off the top of my head.

Re: wxPython: Adding and Removing Widgets Dynamically

Joaquin Abian — Sun, 06 May 2012 03:22:02 -0000

Mike, why do you "normally avoid using Fit" ?

Re: eBook Review – Guide To: Learning Python Decorators

driscollis — Thu, 03 May 2012 21:32:43 -0000

Yeah, I was a little surprised at how much of it focused on functions, but I thought it all tied together pretty well at the end. I was a little bored this week, so I went ahead and read it. I look forward to your review.

Re: eBook Review – Guide To: Learning Python Decorators

John Kemp — Thu, 03 May 2012 16:00:25 -0000

You beat me to the review :) Before reading the book I knew basically what decorators were for but I haven't implemented them myself yet. The book definitely filled that gap in my knowledge. Some of the earlier text initially doesn't seem relevant, but it almost all pops up again eventually (so it works as a good intro for people who haven't looked at the mechanics of function arguments before).

Re: eBook Review – Guide To: Learning Python Decorators

driscollis — Wed, 02 May 2012 22:29:55 -0000

Matt - I think I understand them better. I kind of want to practice writing a few and maybe do a quickie tutorial on my blog too. We'll see. Good look with the KDP Select program!

Re: eBook Review – Guide To: Learning Python Decorators

mattharrison — Wed, 02 May 2012 19:04:57 -0000

Mike - Thanks for the review. I hope you feel like you could write one of those new fangled decorator now! I'm wrapping up an exclusivity contract with Amazon through KDP Select right now. There will soon be an epub/mobi/pdf bundle available on my website for those who have issues with the mega-foothold AMZN has on the ebook market.

Re: eBook Review – Guide to: Learning Iteration and Generators in Python

mattharrison — Wed, 02 May 2012 12:33:48 -0000

FYI. Amazon now has the updated book. Anyone who has the previous version, please update.

Re: eBook Review – Guide to: Learning Iteration and Generators in Python

driscollis — Tue, 01 May 2012 22:32:38 -0000

Matt -
No problem. Thanks for the opportunity. I bought your decorators book today and so far it's been pretty good. I'll probably be reviewing it soon.

Re: eBook Review – Guide to: Learning Iteration and Generators in Python

mattharrison — Tue, 01 May 2012 17:07:08 -0000

Mike-
Thanks for your post. I apologize for the typos. I'll be updating the book tonight with a cleaned up version. For anyone who feels they were treated to a draft, email me and I'll send you a copy of one of my other books (hopefully with less typos) as penance.

Re: eBook Review – Guide to: Learning Iteration and Generators in Python

John Kemp — Mon, 30 Apr 2012 11:50:32 -0000

Yours wasn't a draft copy. On my tablet in portrait mode I see at least three typing errors within the first page. I have put up my own review here (my first review actually, I hope you don't mind me linking it): http://kemp-reviews.blogspot.c...

Re: eBook Review – Guide to: Learning Iteration and Generators in Python

Neil Carrier — Mon, 30 Apr 2012 10:04:43 -0000

I'm not so convinced that "Stack Overfull" was an error, lol.

Re: eBook Review – Guide to: Learning Iteration and Generators in Python

driscollis — Sun, 29 Apr 2012 18:29:46 -0000

Oh! Sorry. I missed that one. There does seem to be a lot of that in this book which is a little sad. That's why I wondered if I'd been given a draft copy.

Re: eBook Review – Guide to: Learning Iteration and Generators in Python

Joaquin Abian — Sun, 29 Apr 2012 15:02:35 -0000

Um! I was refering to the typo "psuedocode" (instead of "pseudocode") in the very first lines of the book, in agreement to your comments of the many grammatical problems.

Re: eBook Review – Guide to: Learning Iteration and Generators in Python

driscollis — Sun, 29 Apr 2012 08:17:20 -0000

In all fairness, the eBook does have a lot of example code in Python. Admittedly, I didn't test the code itself, but it IS there.

Re: eBook Review – Guide to: Learning Iteration and Generators in Python

Joaquin Abian — Sun, 29 Apr 2012 04:00:13 -0000

Hi Mike,
In the preview at the amazon site you also can read "psuedocode" in the very first lines. What a pity, because the contents seems very interesting