Dive Into Python 3 now finished and downloadable as HTML and PDF

[srid]

http://diveintopython3.org/?dupe=withhonor

[pmorici]

The footnote is funny,

"""

This site is optimized for Lynx just because fuck you.

I’m told it also looks good in graphical browsers.

"""

[juvenn → pmorici]

Yeh, it confused me too.

One day, I asked diveintomark on twitter:

  Why there's an unpleasant 'fuck you'?

and get the reply from Mark: http://twitter.com/diveintomark/statuses/1914075749

Now I'm just wondering, has Mark been greatly annoyed by the Internet Censorship?

[jibiki → juvenn]

That's a really funny reply. I suggest Mark try "^__^ fuck you ^__^"

[juvenn → jibiki]

Oh, you ruined all fun

[yop]

"Also available in dead trees" for the print edition. Can't stop laughing.

[mahmud → yop]

"dead trees", that's a very common expression; why would you find it funny?

[yop → mahmud]

Because I hadn't heard/read it before.

[mahmud → yop]

you, my friend, are a bleeding-edge internet newb :-P

http://catb.org/jargon/html/D/dead-tree-version.html

http://catb.org/jargon/html/index.html <-- start here and spend a weekend.

[ericholscher]

Thanks Mark!

[juvenn → ericholscher]

I followed a lot of diveinto series by Mark, so, Thank you!

[timwiseman]

Über-geeks can also clone the Mercurial repository:

you@localhost:~$ hg clone http://hg.diveintopython3.org/ diveintopython3

I know I'm a DBA, but I think this is the first time I've qualified as an Uber-geek.

[chasingsparks]

Hacker News continues to keep me informed. I was just looking two or three weeks ago for a refresher course on Python and found everything outdated. Stellar.

[ludwig]

Why is the section "What's New in Python 3" the last section?

[pizza]

Yes! Now, only the small matter that more than 9/10 modules will break under python 3, but hey, at least now we have a finished Dive Into Python 3!

[tsally → pizza]

Nothing is stopping you from using Python 2.x. Writing a new version of a language is never intended to be backwards compatible. Indeed, breaking backwards compatibility is essentially a perquisite because a new version is the opportunity to add all the useful features that couldn't be added before.

[andreyf → tsally]

That doesn't seem completely true. I could imagine default language syntax changing from one version to another, but still being modifiable via "from __future__ import ..." or "from __past__ import ...", respectively. Unless the bytecodes of the VM are incompatible (which is possible), there isn't any reason py26 code can't talk to py30 code...

[mapleoin → pizza]

So go port them!

[njharman → pizza]

Two types:

1) People worth paying attention to.

2) Whiny bitches.

[pizza → pizza]

I wasn't being sarcastic... I actually like this