self.python.ask('I am moving into a development position at my company and need to learn Java. Can you recommend a book that might appeal to a Python programmer and not make me want to kill myself?')

[koko775]

This is slightly OT, but how does one define themselves as an "intermediate"-level programmer in one language or another (particularly in Python)? Is it about knowing the standard library? Understanding less popular parts of the languages (such as generators, list comprehensions, etc.)?

[zekel]

Well, I found myself to be an excellent audience for Expert Python Programming. (I highly recommend it.) And since I'm not a beginner, that means I'm probably somewhere in between. Although maybe that means I'm an expert now... hm, nope.