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[{"user_id": 5639, "stars": [], "topic_id": 7662, "date_created": 1298218098.757365, "message": "The 2nd Edition was written for 2.3/2.4, and I'm finding that there are tons of recipes that are either obsolete or have become one-liners in Python 3.", "group_id": 292, "id": 153992}, {"user_id": 5639, "stars": [], "topic_id": 7662, "date_created": 1298218124.575583, "message": "One-liners are actually fine if they illustrate an interesting technique or an important language feature.", "group_id": 292, "id": 153997}, {"user_id": 5639, "stars": [], "topic_id": 7662, "date_created": 1298218033.98437, "message": "If you did, please send your Python 3 port to pythoncookbook@oreilly.com and/or post the Python 3 version at the ActiveState Cookbook site: http://code.activestate.com/recipes/langs/python/", "group_id": 292, "id": 153983}, {"user_id": 5639, "stars": [], "topic_id": 7662, "date_created": 1298218056.2872159, "message": "Dave Beazley and I are working on the next edition of Python Cookbook, which will be Python 3 only.", "group_id": 292, "id": 153985}, {"user_id": 831, "stars": [], "topic_id": 7662, "date_created": 1298218686.505249, "message": "Hmm.  Yeah I wrote the old SAX filter recipe.  I've become allergic to the XML tools bundled in Python stdlib, but I should be able to muster to update that for Python 3.0", "group_id": 292, "id": 154036}, {"user_id": 5639, "stars": [], "topic_id": 7662, "date_created": 1298219450.958674, "message": "@uche - Awesome! Don't feel like you absolutely must use the same tools you did in earlier editions -- if there's a simpler way to solve the same basic problem, that works too. Huge focuses in this edition are practical, real-world use-cases, and best practices. No fibonacci recipes, and no using 3-deep nested list comprehensions ;-)", "group_id": 292, "id": 154076}, {"user_id": 831, "stars": [], "topic_id": 7662, "date_created": 1298220708.3710229, "message": "@jonesy I'll give that a think. Thanks. Tell dabeaz I said hi.  Tell him to hurry up and finish with the book so we can work together again :)", "group_id": 292, "id": 154144}, {"user_id": 2863, "stars": [], "topic_id": 7662, "date_created": 1298241393.3139901, "message": "Recipe 19.4 from the 2nd edition is worthless in Python 3 =)", "group_id": 292, "id": 154963}, {"user_id": 9229, "stars": [], "topic_id": 7662, "date_created": 1298246534.05404, "message": "I deleted my other recipe from 2001 (generating a multipart email) since the standard library documentation includes a better, more correct example now :-)", "group_id": 292, "id": 155175}, {"user_id": 9229, "stars": [], "topic_id": 7662, "date_created": 1298246450.6877329, "message": "I've updated http://code.activestate.com/recipes/302380-formatting-plain-text-into-columns/ to be Python 3 (and 2.6+) compatible, and also replace the hand-made align() function with use of the format() built-in.", "group_id": 292, "id": 155173}, {"user_id": 5639, "stars": [], "topic_id": 7662, "date_created": 1298254936.6700139, "message": "@brettcannon - thanks for the heads up -- I hadn't evaluated ch 19's recipes yet. Please submit a replacement candidate covering the topic of your choice!", "group_id": 292, "id": 155576}, {"user_id": 5639, "stars": [], "topic_id": 7662, "date_created": 1298254868.8788619, "message": "@r1chardj0n3s - thank you for the port, but can you tell me what recipe that maps to in the printed book, if any? A quick search for \"Richard Jones\" in the Safari edition of 2nd Ed. comes up with nothing :(   If it *wasn't* in a printed edition, then thanks for the submission and it'll certainly be a good candidate for inclusion!", "group_id": 292, "id": 155571}, {"user_id": 9229, "stars": [], "topic_id": 7662, "date_created": 1298260780.474823, "message": "@jonesy ah, I don't have the 2nd Edition, only the first (the email recipe I mentioned was in the 1st) ... I guess I mustn't have had a recipe in the 2nd :-)", "group_id": 292, "id": 155947}, {"user_id": 12677, "stars": [], "topic_id": 7662, "date_created": 1298269180.3302331, "message": "I haven't written any recipe that made it into a book (I have the printed version of the cookbook which was great for my python learning experience), but I have some recipe:http://bit.ly/fwkj8e for sysadmin on Solaris, maybe not that relevant anymore with recent Solaris, and a recipe I use quite often to spawn multiple cmd in parallel ala xargs with a parallel flag:  http://bit.ly/gKT9wT", "group_id": 292, "id": 156856}, {"user_id": 1152, "stars": [], "topic_id": 7662, "date_created": 1298294888.339654, "message": "How do I write a recipe that gets into the book?", "group_id": 292, "id": 158600}, {"user_id": 5639, "stars": [], "topic_id": 7662, "date_created": 1298295689.347909, "message": "@jessenoller I posted on my blog about that a while back: http://www.protocolostomy.com/2010/12/20/the-makings-of-a-great-python-cookbook-recipe/", "group_id": 292, "id": 158645}, {"user_id": 9229, "stars": [], "topic_id": 7662, "date_created": 1298851092.2182629, "message": "@jonesy fwiw I just updated http://code.activestate.com/recipes/302380-formatting-plain-text-into-columns/ to replace the use of the mixed format() / % formatting - just uses format() now", "group_id": 292, "id": 222774}]