About Learning Python
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The book Learning Python—the classic language foundations tutorial—has
been published in five editions. Each edition has incorporated changes in
Python itself, the Python training classes that this book is based upon, and
common practice in the Python world.
I maintain support pages here for each edition. Please select the relevant
link in the first column of the table below:
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Book Scope
This book is an in-depth introduction to both the 3.X and 2.X versions of
the core Python language. It is designed to be the first in a 2-book set:
Learning Python provides a comprehensive and application-neutral
first look at the language itself, and the follow-up book
Programming Python
picks up where Learning Python ends, focusing on common ways to
apply the language once you've learned it, and providing larger and
more complete examples.
In addition, the book Python Pocket
Reference serves as a reference-only companion to both these
books, providing quick access to supplemental details when you need them.
Also note that this is not a release-specific book. Because it stresses
core Python concepts, it applies to all Python versions in common use,
not just those it was updated to be current with at publication, and listed
in the table above. Given the long tenure of this foundational text, its
extensive coverage of language and programming fundamentals should also
continue to apply to Pythons in years to come. For more on this book's scope,
see also these
content pointers.
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