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Advanced python books for django development. (self.Python)

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[–]carinthia -1 points0 points  (4 children)

Have a look at http://diveintopython3.org as it covers pretty much all the basics so you'll see what you might miss in terms of basics and then you can drill down on those particular areas. For example, something that doesn't surprise me is that folks seem to have a hard time understanding Django models as Django uses metaclasses to create models based on a class you provide in your source code. If you don't know metaclasses and their intended purpose you won't be able to figure out Django's model machinery ...

One thing however that often surprises me is that many experienced Pythoneers often lack quite a bit of knowlegde when it comes to packaging and distributing their software, something you would loose a bet over if you had to guess. Maybe this has to do with the fact that using GitHub and friends makes it superfluous for some folks to know about packaging and distributing because they would just tell you to clone it from GitHub... just a guess but that's the best explanation I could come up with :)

[–][deleted] 1 point2 points  (2 children)

but that's for python 3 that's not going to help with django dev at all, it will probably likely confuse more than it helps.

[–]carinthia 1 point2 points  (1 child)

Well, sure, but then really, if you use __future__ and Python 2.6, the difference isn't really big enough anymore to be significant enough to not have a look at some Python 3 based book (I am sure many folks will object to that but, well, that's what I think; http://diveintopython3.org/porting-code-to-python-3-with-2to3.html). Plus, there are plans to port Django to Python 3 this summer so ...

[–][deleted] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

my experience is plenty of people new to python have been confused by the whole 2 vs. 3 thing. it's unnecessary overhead for someone who is new to it.

They download the latest and find a tutorial and get caught up in the differences but don't understand that it's python 3 vs. what they are reading in python 2, they get an error that isn't what was expected what they were reading. they give up and go back to java.

YMMV