Python Cookbook 3e: Recipes for Mastering Python : 3rd Edition: No. 3 Paperback – Illustrated, 23 May 2013

This book distils elegant programming solutions and explains them in terms that are as simple as possible and as complicated as necessary. No dumbing down. After years of practice, I can still learn from it every day. Keeping it open in your Kindle Cloud Reader makes for a wonderful workflow. Bravo!

Being honest from all the programming books I've got O'Reilly books are the best. Always advanced level information yet you never feel troubled as a beginner. Most books on the market are targeting the quick corner fast track students, but O'Reilly books are more suitable if you want to be Senior dev in the future you should definetely purchase all related programming books with O'Reilly and absorbe all you can. The only thing I wish that they didn't use a rat as cover to their python books. That cover gives me creep, otherwise I would add them to my basket without thinking :)

This is another cook book of code snippets and explanations and covers Python 3 in this third edition.The book is structured in sections starting with the basic language constructs (variables, functions and so on), before getting into more detailed examples on classes, networking, Internet, concurrency and a good section on testing and debugging (all code must be well documented).As someone converting from PHP this has been a revelation in that each section of code snippets has a 'discussion' section to explain the 'why' as wel as the 'how. Other books tell you what/how but rarely the 'why' as this does. Recommended.As it is a cook book, it's not been read cover to cover but the possibility is there.

I have more than 4 years of experience in python and I bought this book to help me increase my skill set in python. This book is only targeted for developers who have some experience in python as it tells the story behind different python modules and how and when to use them. It covers lots of interesting aspects of python. I will definitely recommend it for python developers.

This is by far the best companion for a Python (3) developer. It contains so much recipes and so much advice that using it it's just a pleasure. You are able to produce super elegant code, minimising the lines of code and maximising the code readability. I suggest it to everybody is already a bit proficient in Python and just wants to acquire more immediate and elegant way of coding. Let's say this is a book for who really wants to produce beautiful pythonic code.

looks good, but always to tired to learn, so use it as a tea coaster

Awesome book. It is obvious that the author is deeply acknowledged with Python and computational mechanics. I am impressed with all discussed examples because they solves real world problems and have potential to aid solving more of them. I must say this book is not for beginners although their can benefit too. You cannot simple memorize all examples but have to play around to tweak and use them on practice.Happy coding.

so I thought a cookbook would be a good aid to better climb the learning curve. I have the Kindle version as part of my Python library.The cookbook seems to straddle tutorial and how to accomplish common tasks e,g, how to read a csv file. It also has breadth of coverage including scripting, network and web programming. However don't expect anything on wxPython but numpy is in.At this point in my learning Python its a good resource. At least you can check it out before buying to see if it's the book for you.

My daughter used my old one in highschool. We bought her a new one for college.She used it often as a reference for her CompSci courses in advanced computer imaging. It is a quick reference small enough to easily fit in a backpack.

Really good book one should read if want to write more pythonic code.Recommended only for intermediate n advanced python users.

Excellent livre qui permet de progresser et de produire un code très efficace. Les exemples sont très didactiques, ne tombent pas dans des détails oiseux et se concentrent sur ce qui est à expliquer.De très nombreux thèmes sont abordés et il est facile de développer ses propres solutions à partir de là.Je me réfère à ce livre systématiquement pour mon code.Pour ceux qui connaissent Python, si il y a un livre sur Python à acheter, c'est celui-ci.

Molte tra le procedure che si sviluppano con gli script sono ripetitive e differiscono solo per certi dettagli.E' quindi molto utile impostarle tutte secondo i migliori standard conosciuti. Questo libro serve proprio a questo. Tra l'altro consente di risparmiare un sacco di tempo.

I have been programming with python for 3-4 years, every time I open this book, I learn one new and awesome thing from it. I love the way the authors look at the problems and give you a creative solution.