reference book

[Terry Reedy]

"Andreas Steffen" <LisaBizarre at gmx.de> wrote in message
news:3E01DEE2.39D7CA56 at gmx.de...
> i am looking for the definitive reference for python.

*The* definitive references that *define* Python are the two ref
manuals that come with Python.  Any difference between what they say
and what CPython does is almost always considered a bug.  But the
books others have mentioned may or may not be more useful to you.

TJR