"Tony Houghton" <this.address.is.fake at realh.co.uk> wrote in message news:4331e50b$0$16308$ed2619ec at ptn-nntp-reader01.plus.net... > > Can anyone recommend a good book for intermediate up to expert level? > I'm an experienced C programmer and I learnt Python from the "Learning > Python" O'Reilly book because it had good reviews. I was disappointed > though. It was difficult to read because it was so verbose. It would > sometimes take more than a page to explain something where all the > information I needed could have been conveyed in one sentence. If > anyone's seen Leendert Ammeraal's "C For Programmers", that's more the > sort of style I'm after. Something that covers 2.3 and preferably even > 2.4 would be a bonus. > > I've heard good things about "Dive Into Python". I see it can be > downloaded or read online, and on a very quick browse it seems to be > suitably to the point and cover some useful stuff that was missing from > or too deeply buried in Learning Python. I find it easier to read > printed material though, so I'd consider buying it. What sort of > opinions do people here have of it? If you would give a chance to a task-oriented intermediate to advanced book, check the second edition of the python cookbook. It has over 200 practical recipes, covers 2.3 and 2.4 and has taken excellent reviews. George
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