Book recommendation? For getting up to date

Mats Wichmann mats at wichmann.us
Mon Feb 17 09:00:03 EST 2025


On 2/16/25 18:40, Salvador Mirzo via Python-list wrote:
> Jan Erik Moström <lists at mostrom.pp.se> writes:
> 
>> On 16 Feb 2025, at 20:47, rbowman via Python-list wrote:
>>
>>> David Beasley's 'Python Distilled'. The author doesn't enumerate Python 3
>>> features specifically but as the title suggests hits the important
>>> concepts.
>>
>> Thanks, I'll take a look
> 
> I can reinforce this recommendation.  I haven't read the entire book,
> but I'm reading it slowly.  The beauty of this book is that it's very
> concise without being just a reference.  Since you're familiar with
> Python already, this is likely a good match to you.

It's what one might call the "spiritual successor" to Dabeaz's earlier 
Python Essential Reference, which for years (early 2000's) was the one 
book I referred to frequently.


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