Pro Python
by Marty Alchin · first published 2010
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I highly recommend going through Zed Shaw's "Learn Python the Hard Way". Other great Python related books to pick up are: Pro Python by Marty Alchin Expert Python Programming by Tarek Ziadé If you're looking to get into web development then, I'd suggest picking up: Practical Django Projects Pro Django and Django 1.1 Testing and…
on “Ask HN: Learning Python, Looking for book or class on software construction.” ↗This looks less like a reading list and more like a lead-up to the author propping up his own book. He completely fails to mention any of the more advanced Python books like Expert Python Programming or Pro Python and especially Lutz's Python Programming which seems to have exactly the same type of content as he's book (general knowledge about various python libraries).
on “A Python Reading List by Wesley Chun ” ↗Not the answer you can expect but Pro Python is a good book to start, have you read it?
on “Ask HN: Modern, open source python 3 code bases?” ↗…someone would write a good book focused on more advanced aspects of the Python language: generators, metaclasses, descriptors, etc. From what I could tell from the reviews and TOC, some books such as Pro Python or Expert Python Programming seem to introduce those techniques, but it doesn't seem to be very in depth, and I don't need a book for the other topics they cover. There are a lot of blog posts about this…
on “A Python Reading List by Wesley Chun ” ↗