Python Essential Reference, 4th Edition (Developer’s Library)

“Beazley includes Python’s newer features, particularly related
to functional and meta-programming, resulting in the expansion of
the chapters on functions and object-oriented programming,
covering, for example, coroutines, decorators, and generators. The
library chapters have also been updated to include modern Python
modules, and the code examples and fragments reflect these
upgrades. The book doesn’t reinvent the wheel (just about a ton of
documentation on Python already exists), but the advantage of this
book is its organization, and the fact that all the data is located
in the pages between the book’s two covers.

“Keep in mind, that this isn’t a tutorial, but a reference
guide. While an experienced programmer could probably learn how to
program in Python from this book, someone just learning programming
probably could not. Chapter 1 is a self contained Python tutorial,
but it’s less than 20 pages long, and meant to bring an experienced
programmer who’s not experienced with Python up to speed.”

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