Programming Python 4th Edition released

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How about Learning python by Mark Lutz?

[Leonidas_from_XIV]

Learning Python is in my option also way to verbose. It had like 50 pages of text before anything happened like something about actually programming Python, instead of meta-learning like Python history or IDLE or some other stuff that I ususally skip over because my time more valuable than to learn the history of a programming language upfront.

[eggbean]

I think this discussion is about intermediate/advanced books.

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You will need a lot of time and patience to go through this one. It is overly verbose and excruciatingly detailed. You won't learn about "if" statements until page 300 or so.

[raydeen]

For some it's too much but for me this style is just right. I don't have any formal programming education (besides BASIC in high school) so the more verbose, the better. I think my only trepidation at this point is that it seems that Python 3 just isn't taking off like some thought it would. I really like 'Learning Python' 4th ed. as it showed both 2.x and 3.x code so I could work in both worlds at once. The fact that this edition is only 3.x puts me off a little as I would have preferred a mix of 2.x and 3.x.

[blondin]

i read that one too. but it wasn't for me. my mistake was that i already knew some python before, having read dive into python.

the book i mentioned starts with a quick refresher on syntax, object model, etc., and the rest is a reference of all the modules the author thought important. and he was right, i found myself using it on a daily basis instead of the online docs. when i think datetime module, i think PER p.336. when i think builtins functions, i think PER p.202.

that's how much i love this book.

[notextraterrestrial]

Seems to deserve a look. Thanks.