mk wrote:
Hello everyone,
I looked for it I swear, but just can't find it.
Most Python books seem to focus on examples of how to call functions
from standard library. I don't need that, I have online Python
documentation for that.
IMHO, you don't need an advanced *python* book. If you know
the documentation and basic tutorials, then you know
enough python to write almost anything you may need.
The exception may be, again IMO:
- tkinter, that will need some more work,
- and C extensions, that are made easier by SWIG.
But I think these topics are adressed by books
you already found too simple.
What you need next is:
- read code that do something interesting, for example
here http://www.ics.uci.edu/~eppstein/PADS/ or in python
sources (or find projects on sourceforge, etc.)
- find a book on advanced *what you want to do*
There are good books on programming, like TAOCP or CLRS,
but it's not necessarily what you are looking for.
You may also find material in university CS sites: there
is sometimes cool stuff. Start with MIT OCW if you want
to try this.
The real question is: what do you want to do with your python ?
And don't forget to check with google if someone has already
had the same idea in the same language, such things happen ;-)
The "filetype:pdf" trick may help !
I mean really advanced mental gymnastics, like gory details of how
Python objects operate, how to exploit its dynamic capabilities, dos and
donts with particular Python objects, advanced tricks, everything from
chained decorators to metaprogramming.
Dive Into Python comes closest to
this ideal from what I have found, but still not far enough.
I was about to tell you about it :-)
Anybody found such holy grail?
'never found a better grail than source code :-)
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