为什么《dive-into-python》不值得推荐（Why isnt dive-into-python worth recommending）.docVIP

为什么《dive-into-python》不值得推荐（Why isnt dive-into-python worth recommending） Why Dive into Python is not worth recommending, why Dive into Python is not worth recommending? May 5, 2010 update: I translated an article Dive Into Python feisibuke as further support for this view and reply to comments, see: /lanphaday/archive/2010/05/05/5558617.aspx Dive into Python why not recommended by Lai Yonghao (/lanphaday) Whether it is in China the most popular Python python-cn Google Group community, or in the CSDN script, all from time to time to join the new friend consulting have what good books Python, reply post, definitely not Dive into Python (hereinafter abbreviated as DIP, and Book). Today I want to say is it not recommended reason: its too old, but rather odd content arrangement, the lack of overall view point of view, I dont see that on its entry, and finally there is a very important point to — — recommendation may not use Python at work. Based on the older version, in the first chapter, we can see that this book is written in Python 2.2 or 2.3. The Python release of the latest version 2.5.2, 2.6/3.0 version also plans to release in October this year, the separated version is too large, the performance of recommendation for the encoding form, many books are no longer valid. In fact, the author of this book was not updated in 2004, and after four years, for an open source scripting language, the changes could be described in terms of mountains and rivers. In manuals, you can see many features are added new, in, 2.3/2.4/2.5 footnote, not to mention that DIP is out of date. For example, when I write this article, I refer to the DIP 5.4b version of the woodpecker website (/diveintopython/index.html), which is the latest Chinese version of DIP. Among the second chapters are example 2.1, as follows: There are at least two failed to make full use of the new version, one is the definition of myParams, continuation character code to become ugly, another is join () function argu