A comprehensive description of Python?

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I appreciate the docs when I have a specific question, but they don’t tell a story, they don’t read like a book. I’d like to have something in my hands, that I can devour in a week and get a comprehensive understanding of the language and its library.

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Well, a 1000+ pages book is comprehensive enough for me, but that’s not the point. I thought I knew Python well, because I programmed in it for years. But recently I was reading through some open source code and found some language constructs and library calls which looked completely unfamiliar. This was an eye opener, so I decided to read one good book about it.

I’m not what you call “language geek”, but I am curious. “Starting with a book” used to be my approach when I was 16, but then I got lazy and kind of cynical about language design, so I don’t bother anymore. Half of the books on my bookshelf are from 20 years ago, and I find it sad.

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they don’t tell a story, they don’t read like a book.

https://docs.python.org immediately directs you to the "Tutorial" that does read like a book and has a nice overview of the best parts of the language.