Fluent Python: Clear, Concise, and Effective Programming 2nd Edition

This is an excellent book for learning how to use the Python language proficiently. It is written for experienced developers, especially those who are experts in another language, but want to use Python effectively and elegantly.Chapter 1 explains the Python object model. It is very eye-opening, and is foundational to the goal of the book--teaching you how to write fluent Python code. The author advises that everyone should read chapter 1, then pick and choose topics of interest from the rest of the book. The topics covered in the next 23 chapters are too numerous to list here, but you are sure to find what you are looking for, unless you are looking for GUI programming, which isn't very elegant, no matter what. But I digress.This book is hefty, 980 pages long. It is packed with good information, no fluff. Example scripts are stripped down to illustrate precisely the concept being taught. You can run the examples if you want to, but you don't have to in order to learn what is being taught. The text is very well written. I highly recommend this book.

First of all, let me just say that this isn't a book at all, it is some tome some wise ancient scribe wrote. I have been working in Technology for over 20 years now and I have been interested in it for probably another 20 years before that. In that time I have read many programming books, constantly looking for more advanced topics. I would read and be very disappointed, they were mostly always filled with fluff. I recently decided to finally give Python a try. I am at a point where I am doing more advanced projects and wanted a book to do just that. When I go to Stack Overflow or other sites like that for information. I want to be able to really understand the why behind some of the explanations. I don't want just to copy and paste. The book Python Crash Course helped get the basics down, this book has helped with the more advanced structure.There are two sections that have helped me the most: Functions as objects and Object-oriented idioms. I was going through many videos, Google searches, and some books to get a deeper understanding of this. this book is helping me to do just that. There is a lot of information in this book. Also, the index is decent. Many technology books lack in having a good one.

The book was great The description said its used but it's pretty brand new to me. very great appreciated :)

I am keeping this on my bookshelf as i gain experience in python programming. A quick glance through the book shows a great way to advance in your programming skills once you have an understanding of the basics.I am a beginner at programming and will value the data in this book.

Some chapters at first seemed to be things I already knew, but there were always new items discovered therein. The last couple of chapters were mind-bending: class factories, and meta classes. I will need to re-read those again to get my mind around them. All is well presented.

Right, you better know Python already, this should not be your first entry into Python. Well written aspects of true-pythonistic styles, you need this once you _think_ you are good and comfortable with the language. Browse through a chapter at the time and you are guaranteed to pick up something about Python you didn't know or were doing wrong.But why not produce this in two smaller books, easier to handle? I had an earlier version which was thick enough, this one is enormous and I do not enjoy handling it.

This excellent book covers in detail subjects, especially concurrency and threading, with insight. In addition to being well-written and extremely informative, the author, Ramalho, provides links to numerous YouTube videos and relevant papers on Python that are a treasure trove in themselves. At the end of each chapter he writes a ‘soapbox’ page or two which is opinion, and very worth reading. I have bought dozens of Python books and this is one of the absolute best!

This book is huge in every way. It's literally 2 inches thick, making it not the most comfortable 'lap' read especially for a paperback. The amount of glue in the spine doesn't look like this book is going to last years without breaking, but time will tell.Perhaps not the most accessible for a newcomer to python, but for a more experienced user, from what I've read so far this is pretty definitive for up to Python 3.10.Without hesitation, if there's ever a third edition, I'd buy it. If it gets much bigger though, it's going to need to split into multiple volumes. (Arguably the 2nd ed. should have been)