Django Gains Popularity - Trees are Afraid

Am I the only one who gets jealous when I see 30 different titles about Rails in the bookstore and nary a tome for our beloved Python? Well, only for a second until I slyly remember that my language of choice is concise, elegant, and already comes with a great set of tutorials and reference. Then I start to feel relieved as a I realize that I don't have to deal with the dizzying multitude of 1000-page behemoths on Microsoft's pick-your-technology-of-choice.

Sams Teach Yourself series is coming out with a title in a few weeks and I recently noticed that Wrox also has a book out now. The Wrox book actually focuses on both TurboGears and Django. Without having looked into the contents at all, I'll still say that I'm skeptical about this wisdom of trying to cover 2 separate frameworks in the same book. I suppose that if there is a lot of side-by-side comparison than one can gain a lot of insight about the differing development philosophies and make an informed decision about which style suits them. Personally I've never been a huge fan of the Wrox books in general so maybe I have an automatic bias skewing my perception here.

The current list of Django books I'm aware of are:

• The Definitive Guide to Django: Web Development Done Right (Paperback)
  by Adrian Holovaty and Jacob Kaplan-Moss
• Practical Django Projects (Pratical Projects) (Paperback) (due in June)
  by James Bennett
• Sams Teach Yourself Django in 24 Hours (Sams Teach Yourself)
  by Brad Dayley
• Professional Python Frameworks: Web 2.0 Programming with Django and Turbogears (Programmer to Programmer)
  by Dana Moore, Raymond Budd, and William Wright

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