Here it is—a shiny new edition of Beginning Python. If you count its predecessor, Practical
Python, this is actually the third edition, and a book I’ve been involved with for the better part
of a decade. During this time, Python has seen many interesting changes, and I’ve done my best
to update my introduction to the language. At the moment, Python is facing perhaps its most
marked transition in a very long time: the introduction of version 3. As I write this, the final release
isn’t out yet, but the features are clearly defined and working versions are available. One interesting
challenge linked to this language revision is that it isn’t backward-compatible. In other words,
it doesn’t simply add features that I could pick and choose from in my writing. It also changes the
existing language, so that certain things that are true for Python 2.5 no longer hold.
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