Forging ahead

As I mentioned previously, Programming Python is indeed not quite the book I was expecting it to be. After reading roughly 100 pages, I find that it delves for too long on subjects that are not quite related to Python (it spends an awful lot of pages in the os and sys modules, for example) and does not include any kind of introduction to novice programmers (on code formatting issues, for example, or lambda functions; this is assumed to be already known).

So, I’m taking a detour and moving on to the Python tutorial, which can be found online at python.org and in the standard distribution files. I’ll go back to the book afterwards…