Book recommendation? For getting up to date

[Thomas Passin]

On 2/16/2025 4:00 PM, Jan Erik Moström via Python-list wrote:
> On 16 Feb 2025, at 20:59, dn via Python-list wrote:
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>> When stop to think about it, this is quite a request:
>> don't give me what I do know,
>> do give me what I don't know!
> 
> 😜
> 
>> That said, you are correct: the bulk of new publications seem to (still) aim at the Beginner end of the continuum (see later comments).
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> Yep, I threw away several beginners books in Python last week (they were a bit dated).
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> My work used to be (and still is, to a small degree) to teach programming to novice students. So, I feel I can skip the basics and go on to the intermediate/advanced stuff.
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>> Over the period mentioned, Python has changed a great deal - Python 3 (largely) replacing Python 2 was only the most-notable!
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> Yep, that shift was interesting when teaching novices Python!!
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>> Books published in 2024 (which I may not have read from cover to cover - yet):
>>
>> Effective Python: 125 Specific Ways to
>> Write Better Python, 3rd Edition
>> Brett Slatkin
>> Addison Wesley
>>
>> Hypermodern Python Tooling
>> Building Reliable Workflows for an Evolving Python Ecosystem
>> Claudio Jolowicz
>> O'Reilly
>>
>> Powerful Python
>> Aaron Maxwell
>> O'Reilly
>> - starts with generators (which you likely haven't met before)
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> I have done so ... to be really honest, it was when I couldn't remember how to create an iterator for a class I was writing, that I realized that I needed a refresher.
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>> it's a tremendous challenge to write a book (also involving considerable time and effort) which will return value for more than a few years - particularly at the advanced levels!
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> True, I'm quite amazed that people write books since it takes such an effort with little, my guess, reward for doing it
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>> An alternative-approach which may take your fancy, is online courses (many of which can be taken for $free). Their self-paced nature has the advantage of enabling the skipping-over of repetitive content (and the repeating of points which don't immediately 'sink in'). You will find many examples on Coursera* and edX*.
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> My plan is to find one or two books that seem suitable, when I've looked at those then I'm going online for the rest.
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> Thanks for the suggestions: I think I now have 2-3 books that I should look into in more detail.

I don't have a book for them but I think you should look into the 
(relatively new) type annotation system, as well as asynchronized 
programming. The latter is especially of interest because the older 
techniques have been removed and replaced with a different approach 
(asyncio having replaced asyncore). Both of these will probably be new 
to you, and both are important to know about.