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02-04-2015

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Hi.

This provided the motivation for me to update my database of books. Some time ago when I worked at a training center, we had a Python course. We provided O'Reilly's Learning Python, 1st edition. The course ran perhaps 3 times, and we dropped it for lack of interest. At that time, perl was in ascendancy, so we concentrated on it (I still like perl for quick solutions). Currently, Python seems better-suited to projects that are engineered, and, in the last few years, has passed perl in popularity.

I recently became re-interested in Python, and of the many books available (I usually look at reviews at Amazon), I found the items below to serve my interests:

Quote:

Title: Python Programming
Subtitle: An Introduction of Computer Science
Author: John Zelle
Edition: 2nd
Date: 2010
Publisher: Franklin, Beedle & Associates
ISBN: 978-1-59028-241-0
Pages: 514
Categories: python, programming, languages, computer science
Comments: Python 3, 4.7 (5.0) Amazon
Comments: #1 Best Seller in Introductory & Beginning Programming (2015)

Title: Python for Informatics
Subtitle: Exploring Information
Author: Charles R Severance
Edition: [Kindle Edition]
Date:
Publisher: Amazon Digital Services, Inc.
ISBN: 1492339245
Pages: 246 (859 KB)
Categories: python, programming
Comments: 4.7 (5.0), 33 reviews Amazon (2015.02)
Comments: Kindle (ebook) edition has been free; paperback around $10.
Comments: Amazon.com: Python for Informatics: Exploring Information eBook: Charles Severance: Kindle Store

Title: Data Science at the Command Line
Subtitle: Facing the Future with Time-Tested Tools
Author: Jeroen Janssens
Edition: 1
Date: October 12, 2014
Publisher: O'Reilly Media
ISBN: 1491947853 978-1491947852
Pages: 212
Categories: data science, python, R, using building tools
Comments: 4.0 (5.0) 4 reviews Amazon (2015.02)
Comments: OSEMIN: { obtain, scrub, explore, model, interpret } data
Comments: "We will focus on Python and R because these are
Comments: currently the two most popular programming languages within the
Comments: data science community."

Title: Learning Python
Subtitle:
Author: Mark Lutz
Edition: 5
Date: July 6, 2013
Publisher: O'Reilly Media; Fifth Edition edition
ISBN: 1449355730 978-1449355739
Pages: 1600
Categories: python, programming, object-oriented
Comments: 4.1 (5.0) 111 reviews Amazon (2015.02)
Comments: covers Python 2.7 and 3.3
Comments: There have been many criticisms about the size of this
Comments: book. Edition 1 was 366 pages. Many feel that this should have
Comments: been split into at least 3 books, such as O'Reilly has done with
Comments: perl, q.v.

Note that one of them is free in the Kindle edition. You can read Kindle editions on many platforms (I use an iPad, for example, in addition to a Kindle). There are also PC apps to read Kindle books. I think you will need a Kindle account, however, but it is free.

Good luck ... cheers, drl

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ethers

ethers(5) File Formats Manual ethers(5)

Name
ethers - database that maps Ethernet addresses to hostnames

Description
The file is used in conjunction with the reverse address resolution protocol daemon, to map Ethernet addresses to hostnames. It contains
information about the known (48-bit) Ethernet addresses of hosts on the Internet.

For each host on an Ethernet, a single line should be present in the file with the following information:

Ethernet-address official-host-name

Items are separated by one or more spaces or tabs. A number sign (#) indicates the beginning of a comment that extends to the end of line.

The standard form for Ethernet addresses is:

x:x:x:x:x:x

The x is a hexadecimal number between 0 and ff, representing 1 byte. The address bytes are always in network order.

Hostnames can contain any printable character other than a space, tab, newline, or number sign (#).

Hostnames in the file should correspond to the hostnames in the file or to those provided by the name service.

Examples
The following is a sample file: 08:00:20:01:e5:1c host1 # Comments go here 08:00:20:01:d0:4c host2 # Comments go
here 08:00:20:01:e0:1d host3 # Comments go here 08:00:20:00:c2:4e host4 # Comments go here

See Also
ethers(3n), hosts(5), rarpd(8c)
Introduction to Networking and Distributed System Services

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