Python Cookbook

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.