Condensing thousands of pages of Python online documentation into the 319-page compact softcover, Beazley and his editors-using old-college trick (often performed in reverse) of the bargain with the font size to meet the requirements of putative page-limit. The result is a fitness product that is really thick for good occularly adjusted (nota bene). Beazley subject is Python, a, full-featured, freely-redistributable, POSIX-compliant (platforms include Linux, Unix, Macintosh, and Windows) scripting language based on the principles of object-oriented design. In the key step with competing scripting languages, Python is extensible and embeddable in C and C + +, and with blitzkrieg efficiency, Beazley summarizes the important practical issues in the last 30 pages. Python users who are tired of chasing questions through hyperlinked online documents will benefit from index random-wide access. Python the book captures the regularity of the Python language. Beazley begins with a 86-page s pr Python on the fashion of Kernighan and Ritchie:? Too brief for a newbie tutorial but enough to encourage long hands into a scripting language who wish to elegance compiled language. If writing byte-compiled code to the file is not possible, Python suffers from the limitations of other scripting languages: executable is the source and can not be hidden from the user, at least not without great difficulty. Despite its extended, embeddability, and pleasing architecture, Python is a scripting language like any other: suitable for solving problems of small Nonproprietary. Those familiar with more established scriptors like Perl may ask, "Why Python?" Unlike Perl, Python is a product of the era (OO) is fully object oriented, and construction companies reflects the design principles that aspire beyond keystroke shortcuts of Perl's concise-but-often-secret. Python creator Guido van Rossum cleansed Perl and objectification of the basic features of data structures, data manipulation, and I / O. With Python, OO is so intrinsic that learning Python is equivalent to learning OO. The same can not be said of Perl. Unfortunately, comparison with other languages are missing from Beazley's book.