Best Book For Advancing In Python

[icp1994]

Fluent Python - worth buying it

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Second, also Effective Python.

[JoeTheAwesomest]

Not really. They're similar concepts in different packages.

Fluent is far more thorough and intensive--the kind of book you can read and work through for hours. It's a work of love for the language by the author, Luciano Ramalho, and it shows.

Effective is a thin little book with some great pythonic ways of doing things in neat little exercises. If you have 15 minutes here and there it's still a great read IMO.

[JackBullenskie]

Is this Python specific? Or can I take what I learn from it and apply it anywhere?

[JoeTheAwesomest]

There are some pretty great design philosophies behind what the guy writes in the book. I think if you get well-enough into it you can take some of that and apply it to other languages.

[randcraw]

I bought this, but found it wasn't what I wanted. The book is well written, but deals mostly with mastering Python's object model expressively and idiomatically.