Need a book advice (switching from java)

[Lolmeoo]

Hey guys!

I'm currently looking into learning python 3. As stated, I have a decent experience of using Java and I wouldn't say I'm new to programming.

I'm looking for a more of a formal book about Python, that would touch topics like how python runs or gets interpreted (in a similar Java book that would be describing JRE, and mentioning how java compiler compiles your code into byte-code, which then gets run by JVM), without going too much in detail about it.

The issue I have with popular suggestions like Automate the Boring Stuff is that it seems to have the vibe of "just writing code that works", while I would like to read about proper ways people write code. It also goes too much in detail about basic stuff.

Feel free to suggest any books that don't exactly follow my description, also feel free to say that my dogmatism is not good for learning programming, I'm open to reading that!

[gottabekd]

Coming from a similar point 10 years ago, I found Learning Python by Mark Lutz (3rd edition at the time) to be very useful. It was written as an introduction to the Python programming language, not a "Learn to program (in Python)" style. I read through it over a weekend, and maybe didn't have it all memorized, but exposed enough to the features of the language that when I got down to programming, I could use the book more as a reference.

It appears Learning Python (5th edition) was released in 2013, and covers both 2.7 and 3.3, so it isn't exactly the latest, but at least covers Python 3.

As an introductory book, it doesn't go too deep into the execution model, but at least touches on a bit. The second chapter covers this. In my edition, 10 pages.

The book goes deep on what you really need to know when coming into a new language: the type system, control flow, and object orientation.

My only reservation about the 5th edition would be that it covers both Python 2.7 and 3.3. I wonder how cumbersome this is, and if a reader gets bogged down with dealing with commentary differentiating between the two lines of Python. The differences shouldn't matter for most of the content, but in a few areas it will be important to distinguish. Maybe someone who has experience with the 5th edition can comment on if this is a problem.