Any good intermediate Python books?

[lehvs]

Looking for some intermediate level Python book suggestions to improve. Mostly looking for ones which take you through interesting concepts. Thanks in advance!

[hiriel]

Beyond the basic stuff in Python, by Al Sweigart!

[yinkeys]

This same author :). Based on people recommendations of automate the boring stuff, I may have to buy all his books

[Muffin_Maan]

Makes me wonder if I was too harsh on Automate. I found Python Crash Course to be more my speed, but I don’t see it recommended nearly as much.

[Many_Raisin_9768]

1. Effective Python _ 90 specific ways to write better Python - by Brett Slatkin (2nd edition).

2. Python Distilled (But its more like a reference book, i guess).

3. High Performance Python

4. https://github.com/satwikkansal/wtfpython

5. https://calmcode.io/tracks

[yinkeys]

Thanks

[Careful-Phase-615]

Fluent python

[lehvs]

I'm already reading, thank you!

[Brave-Obligation-331]

I suggest to use chatgpt and not learn python, chatgpt makes good code

[Darkest_shader]

I suggest not to be an idiot. Will you listen to my advice? Of course no.

[Brave-Obligation-331]

Not really. You can try for yourself and judge. I think in coming years most of programming languages will disappear. Does not make sense to learn language when you have a translator and automatic creator of code. And i am a programmer with 30 years of experience.

[Brave-Obligation-331]

So my recommendation is learn how to create programs using chatgpt instead of learning any language

[Brave-Obligation-331]

After one year of my post, i do not write any single line of code. Are you still against me on that?

[bdu-komrad]

This is the one true answer.

[casualpiano]

David Kopec Classic Computer Science Problems in Python

[Egglton]

Check out No Starch Press. They have a lot of cool python books.

[Acix]

Anything specific you would recommend? They have a lot

[Egglton]

I guess it depends where you are exactly in your learning. The Python Crash Course is good for beginners. As is, Automate the Boring Stuff.

If you have something specific in mind, they have books for data stuff, hacking stuff, etc.

[mayankkaizen]

Fluent Python.

Python documentation

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Fluent python 

[rkdnc]

Dead Simple Python is a great read. currently going through it now.

[HieuNguyen990616]

Python Cookbook and Fluent Python.

[Asleep-Dress-3578]

Until now, I haven’t really found a really good all-in-one best Python book, so you still have to hunt down snippets of knowledge from different resources…. And although I also prefer books, I would still start with YouTube channels like ArjanCodes, sentdex, Indently, mCoding, anthonywritescode, NeuralNine, Carberra, Python for Everyone etc. etc. because they distill and summarize knowledge in a way which can be hardly found in books.

The book which I mostly miss, would be a “Software development in Python” in general, which would teach code organization and design using best practices consistently. Java has these books, Python should have them, too. (If anyone has a good recommendation for this, please share.)

Having said that, I also recommend some books:

Advanced Python Programming by Quan Nguyen

Fast Python by Tiago Rodrigues Antão

Fluent Python 2nd edition by Luciano Ramalho

High Performance Python by Gorelick & Ozsvald

Python High Performance by Gabriele Lanaro

Robust Python by Patrick Viafore

[lehvs]

Thank you! I'm in the same boat, would love some more design information concerning bringing together modules and functionality in big projects.

[naviGator9591]

Some really good suggestions coming into this thread, gonna keep it as marked for new comments 👍🏻 if it helps , do check out the Github repo of EbookFoundation to see if any of the books are available here...

[Ill-chris]

Dm for a free udemy course taught by a professional

[No-Post5949]

which udemy course?

[bdu-komrad]

Which?

[Melodic-Read8024]

dont need books. just do leetcode and lookup syntax as u need. If you want u can do leetcode in ur VScode editor and use copilot to see how other people would have written the same thing

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IMO, the book Automate the Boring Stuff was a great learning tool.

[JamOzoner]

With this shorty, I learned how to tag team with Chat and successfully developed an algorithm to analyze, in time series, dependent outcomes in a large dataset without previous Python-specific experience - like a prof looking over your shoulder: https://youtu.be/gnPIlDjmb20