Python book

[m***@public.gmane.org]

Just found http://www.greenteapress.com/thinkpython/thinkpython.pdf -
GFDL-licensed. I'll upload a PDF; anyone have a good (semi-)automated way to
make this wiki markup?



Mike

[Andrew Whitworth]

I dont know of any way to convert a PDF, unfortunately. Maybe we could
contact the author and see if they have the source (TeX or whatever)
that was used to generate the PDF in the first place.

On a related note, I've found out today that O'Reilly publishers
occasionally release the text of their older books back to the
community. Sometimes they even grant open-content licenses (such as
GFDL) to reusers of this content. Maybe we could get in touch with
them and scavenge through some of their older books? O'Reilly operates
a wiki where they release the code of their books and (amazing!) it's
MediaWiki so reuse would be direct.

http://commons.oreilly.com/wiki/index.php/O%27Reilly_Commons

I may get in touch with them and see what books they have that are
GFDL'd that we can get our hands on.

Post by m***@public.gmane.org
Just found http://www.greenteapress.com/thinkpython/thinkpython.pdf -
GFDL-licensed. I'll upload a PDF; anyone have a good (semi-)automated way to
make this wiki markup?
Mike
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[Andrew Whitworth]

Actually, I dug around a little bit at http:/www.thinkpython.com and
found both LaTex and HTML (!!!) source code for this. It's available
in 21 HTML pages. If somebody else wants to upload the raw HTML to a
book, I'll run my bot over it and convert it all to wikitext.

I've created an outline for it at http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Think_Python

--Andrew Whitworth

Post by Andrew Whitworth
I dont know of any way to convert a PDF, unfortunately. Maybe we could
contact the author and see if they have the source (TeX or whatever)
that was used to generate the PDF in the first place.
On a related note, I've found out today that O'Reilly publishers
occasionally release the text of their older books back to the
community. Sometimes they even grant open-content licenses (such as
GFDL) to reusers of this content. Maybe we could get in touch with
them and scavenge through some of their older books? O'Reilly operates
a wiki where they release the code of their books and (amazing!) it's
MediaWiki so reuse would be direct.
http://commons.oreilly.com/wiki/index.php/O%27Reilly_Commons
I may get in touch with them and see what books they have that are
GFDL'd that we can get our hands on.

Post by m***@public.gmane.org
Just found http://www.greenteapress.com/thinkpython/thinkpython.pdf -
GFDL-licensed. I'll upload a PDF; anyone have a good (semi-)automated way to
make this wiki markup?
Mike
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