PS: twice in one week? You have my sympathies. Hey, I hear they have great Rapid Transit in Vancouver (actually, I've been out to Burnaby from downtown, for a business meeting, and would have taken the train but time didn't allow for mistakes in which train, which direction to walk when I got off, etc.).

>>When I read .Net code, I am assaulted, rather continuously, with the realization that it's been made much more difficult than it had to be, that the hoops being erected so that I can jump through them have no effective reason for existing (except for rules that have no effective purpose), I give a few wretching noises, and then go read Python code. :)
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>>>Sheesh, you're a natural for NET when you turn something so simple into an entity framework like that.
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>Hi Hank,
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>Could you recommend a good python book, if possible an online free one, as I crashed my car twice in two weeks so money is MIA :) I signed up for a course in robotics and I need to learn python before Feb 20!
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>Thanks!
>Hugo
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>[Update] Yesterday I started reading this one: http://docs.python.org/tutorial/[/Update]