Can anyone recommend a good book for intermediate up to expert level? I'm an experienced C programmer and I learnt Python from the "Learning Python" O'Reilly book because it had good reviews. I was disappointed though. It was difficult to read because it was so verbose. It would sometimes take more than a page to explain something where all the information I needed could have been conveyed in one sentence. If anyone's seen Leendert Ammeraal's "C For Programmers", that's more the sort of style I'm after. Something that covers 2.3 and preferably even 2.4 would be a bonus.
I've heard good things about "Dive Into Python". I see it can be downloaded or read online, and on a very quick browse it seems to be suitably to the point and cover some useful stuff that was missing from or too deeply buried in Learning Python. I find it easier to read printed material though, so I'd consider buying it. What sort of opinions do people here have of it? -- The address in the Reply-To is genuine and should not be edited. See <http://www.realh.co.uk/contact.html> for more reliable contact addresses. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
