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kalevi@kolttonen.fi (Kalevi Kolttonen) wrote or quoted:
>Okay. I must confess that just seeing the book's size discouraged
>me from buying or reading it. Programming Python, 4th Edition by
>O'Reilly has whopping 1628 pages! This has to be one of the longest
>programming books ever published.

  I think the book market offers Python books large and small for
  people to choose according to their taste.

  You chose to focus on a book that does not please you because
  it's too large. Well, you could as well have chosen a tiny
  Python book and say it's too small! So your comment is more
  a criticism of your own choice of focus than of that book.

>So are you saying that most of the 1628 pages describe libraries
>instead of the core language?

  Well, I don't know that specific book, and so I cannot report
  its contents. But I don't think its author is named "O'Reilly".