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Extremely Disappointed With This Book
nsheridan
post Jan 10 2009, 06:05 AM
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I recently purchased this book and I found it extremely annoying to read due to the constant capitalisation of code at the start of sentences. For example:
"Another high level library is urllib2. Urllib2 contains pretty much the same functionality as urllib, but expands on it."
As you're probably aware, 'urllib2' and 'Urllib2' are two *very* different things in python. Finding sentences like the above all the way through the book makes it hard to trust any of the sample code and put me off reading the book. I cannot believe this is a technical book and I cannot recommend it to anyone.
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sarahkim
post Jan 15 2009, 01:53 PM
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Hello,

Thank you for posting your frustration with the book. We really value this type of feedback. I do want you to know that we have a 100% Satisfaction Guarantee:
http://oreilly.com/oreilly/cs/guarantee.html

If you have any trouble returning the book please contact customer service and they'll take care of it for you.
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Also, this is something we'd like to correct in the next printing. I'll post the sample capitalization error you mentioned as errata for this book. If you noticed any other errors we'd really appreciate having them submitted:
http://oreilly.com/catalog/9780596515829/errata/

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