Python
Internet Programming with Python
Format: Paperback
Author: Aaron Watters
ReleaseDate: 30 September, 1996
Publisher: M & T Books
Rating:
A masterpiece 
An unfortunate effect is that my students could not buy the book, and have to share the library copies. Instead of giving this book an opportunity to become a best-seller, the publisher let it become out of print. This book is beautifully written, enormously useful and fun to read because of authors' good sense of humor. Chapter 7: "Generating HTML" gives one of the best introductions to object orientation and dynamic features of Python. I urge the authors and the publisher to work quickly to make the book available.
great book, the CD is out-of-date
The book also takes you from beginner-level to advanced stuff like extending and embedding python, sort of the python equivalent of the Perl camel book (programming perl) and panther book (advanced perl programming) rolled into one. Awesome book, I liked Chapter 3 which instantly gets you into useful programming stuff. I think there's enough stuff on net programming to justify the title. The CD-ROM in my copy of the book has python 1. 3, the current version is 1. 5 something. The book too might be dated, but I skimmed the latest ORA python book, Learning Python, and I think this is more my speed.
Gentle Intro to Python.
That said, it is an excellent book. The book's title probably has been chosen to attract attention. The standard book, Programming Python by Mark Lutz, may bog neophytes down.
The first half of the book is an introduction to the language and the second half applications loosely connected to the Internet. The language is worth knowing, but I'd have liked a book with exercises.
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