Alex MartelliReseñas

I'm 136 pages in, and I am very impressed. The author is extraordinarily careful to be precise in his terminology. There's no space wasted on attempted humor. Any moments of frustration during my reading have been about the inelegance of Python, not about the author's description of that inelegance. Highly recommended (even though it's pricey).

I'm glad to be done with this for now, as I am with most books intended for reference use that I try reading cover to cover. Nevertheless it's a great resource, and I think the recipes here are a bit higher quality than some of the other O'Reilly Cookbook titles. Good cross-referencing and encouragement to refer to material in related chapters. An essential reference if you are learning Python, and a source for some great ideas.

Not recommendable for introductory reading, but quite a nice bedside table book for the experienced Python programmer. The entire book is made up of short to medium-length examples constructed by experienced Python programmers solving small real-world programming tasks together with a concise description. Great to learn the hidden intricacies of the programming language.

Even though it's intended for experienced developers, it helped me understand some of the tricky issues that I was running into just starting out.

Python Must Have: This is the book you need to have in your hand when coding Python. It was clearly written by somebody who has "done it", not just read the docs. Read This Fine Manual

Probably just not the book I needed at the time, but disappointing for me - make sure that the "recipes" in here actually address problems somewhat related to the ones you're dealing with.

I love the Cookbook series. Lots of clever tricks and details about the language you didn't know before. Plus I have to recommend this because recipe 7.3 "Using Compression with Pickling" is the first thing I've ever had published in a book.

Not only this book is a cookbook, it also teaches you why things are done this way and not thay way which I think is very helpful for beginner, intermediate, and possibly expert python programmers.

The authoritative reference on "Why Python is that way." Tersely written, filled with wisdom.