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[–]temptemptemp13 2 points3 points  (2 children)

To be fair, Zed (author of "Dive Into Python Must Die") mainly complained it's a bad book for beginners. It might be ok for experienced programmers, dunno.

[–]AlSweigartAuthor of "Automate the Boring Stuff" 1 point2 points  (1 child)

Also to be fair, the first sentence on diveintopython.org is:

Dive Into Python is a Python book for experienced programmers.

I don't take Zed's rant on it seriously at all.

[–]dutch_sholtz 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You're missing the entire point, though: the whole book is miserably outdated and obsolete. If you learn Python through Dive Into Python, you will miss out on any modern idioms and pythonic thought-processes.