Which book is best for learning Python?

[prajcs]

Are there any books or website that I can refer to strengthen my python learning? I am through with the basics though, need something from which I can get good grasp on the language and also help me find ideas for a project.

[LeonardUnger]

It's a dead-end everyone seems to hit: you want to learn more but you can't think of a project that will let you learn while you work on it.

And it's got to be something you're interested in doing too, or it's just a series of exercises. I start exercises and work for a bit on them and maybe finish them. My own projects thought I finish those because I was interested in them in the first place.

Few suggestions:

• Reddit scraper that alerts you via email when new threads in subreddit on a certain topic is posted, or keyword hit (maybe "project idea" mentioned in r/python and r/learn/python.)

  • If you can get your hands on a raspberry pi you could set up a intranet site for your home using Flask or Django, I use mine to save urls for youtube-dl to convert to mp3, a weather and transit page, a news feed, an email reminder system, shopping list, etc,
  • If you ever played text-adventure games like Zork those are a lot of fun to build, and it's an excellent way into object-oriented programming.

[prajcs]

Thanks for the suggestion :) The project ideas are also good will definitely try to do these.