Path: news.eternal-september.org!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!not-for-mail From: ram@zedat.fu-berlin.de (Stefan Ram) Newsgroups: comp.lang.python Subject: Re: Book recommendation? For getting up to date Date: 6 Mar 2025 11:02:06 GMT Organization: Stefan Ram Lines: 13 Expires: 1 Mar 2026 11:59:58 GMT Message-ID: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: news.uni-berlin.de 4xh5ULk/Gm0uqHgB1agFKQhahlFqQS7Vu3dmJlIwq82cFx Cancel-Lock: sha1:X3f7QnruYKJWn0G6Akk7wF+2tLQ= sha256:ri8fm7mshr1xOcDIJlNJ0jbZxnHVW934nZ/YlM9O038= X-Copyright: (C) Copyright 2025 Stefan Ram. All rights reserved. Distribution through any means other than regular usenet channels is forbidden. It is forbidden to publish this article in the Web, to change URIs of this article into links, and to transfer the body without this notice, but quotations of parts in other Usenet posts are allowed. X-No-Archive: Yes Archive: no X-No-Archive-Readme: "X-No-Archive" is set, because this prevents some services to mirror the article in the web. But the article may be kept on a Usenet archive server with only NNTP access. X-No-Html: yes Content-Language: en-US ram@zedat.fu-berlin.de (Stefan Ram) wrote or quoted: >Effective Python by Brett Slatkin Well, I've taken a gander at this book, and it's more like a compilation of articles on various (more advanced) topics that could be of wildly different relevance to any given reader, rather than a coherent textbook. It might make sense to peruse one of these articles as needed when you're looking to bone up on its specific subject, but I don't see the point in plowing through all these articles in advance just because you might need the stuff in them someday.