Re: Book recommendation? For getting up to date

2025-02-16 Thread Salvador Mirzo via Python-list
Jan Erik Moström writes: > On 16 Feb 2025, at 20:47, rbowman via Python-list wrote: > >> David Beasley's 'Python Distilled'. The author doesn't enumerate Python 3 >> features specifically but as the title suggests hits the important >> concepts. > > Thanks, I'll take a look I can reinforce this

Re: Book recommendation? For getting up to date

2025-02-16 Thread rbowman via Python-list
On Mon, 17 Feb 2025 08:59:11 +1300, dn wrote: > - on Coursera am sad to advise avoiding U.Mich courses - they tend to be > re-worded Java (I think) content, don't follow PEP-008 and 'miss' Python > idioms The edx CS50 Python from Harvard is decent. It does start with the basics but overall I enj

Re: Book recommendation? For getting up to date

2025-02-16 Thread rbowman via Python-list
On Sun, 16 Feb 2025 22:00:11 +0100, Jan Erik Moström wrote: > I have done so ... to be really honest, it was when I couldn't remember > how to create an iterator for a class I was writing, that I realized > that I needed a refresher. Most of my Python was related to Esri's ArcGIS version. Up unti

Re: Book recommendation? For getting up to date

2025-02-16 Thread Jan Erik Moström via Python-list
On 16 Feb 2025, at 23:06, Thomas Passin via Python-list wrote: > I don't have a book for them but I think you should look into the (relatively > new) type annotation system, as well as asynchronized programming. The latter > is especially of interest because the older techniques have been remove

Re: Book recommendation? For getting up to date

2025-02-16 Thread Thomas Passin via Python-list
On 2/16/2025 4:00 PM, Jan Erik Moström via Python-list wrote: On 16 Feb 2025, at 20:59, dn via Python-list wrote: When stop to think about it, this is quite a request: don't give me what I do know, do give me what I don't know! 😜 That said, you are correct: the bulk of new publications seem

Re: Book recommendation? For getting up to date

2025-02-16 Thread Jan Erik Moström via Python-list
On 16 Feb 2025, at 20:59, dn via Python-list wrote: > When stop to think about it, this is quite a request: > don't give me what I do know, > do give me what I don't know! 😜 > That said, you are correct: the bulk of new publications seem to (still) aim > at the Beginner end of the continuum (se

Re: Book recommendation? For getting up to date

2025-02-16 Thread Jan Erik Moström via Python-list
On 16 Feb 2025, at 20:47, rbowman via Python-list wrote: > David Beasley's 'Python Distilled'. The author doesn't enumerate Python 3 > features specifically but as the title suggests hits the important > concepts. Thanks, I'll take a look = jem -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python

Re: Book recommendation? For getting up to date

2025-02-16 Thread rbowman via Python-list
On Sun, 16 Feb 2025 13:50:33 +0100, Jan Erik Moström wrote: > I used to be fairly good at Python, but I haven't done any serious > programming in the last 10 years or so. So I would like something that > got me up-to-date with the latest features. David Beasley's 'Python Distilled'. The author do

Re: Book recommendation? For getting up to date

2025-02-16 Thread dn via Python-list
On 17/02/25 01:50, Jan Erik Moström via Python-list wrote: I'm looking for a book that would teach me the lastest and greatest parts of Python, does anyone have any recommendations? I've looked at python.org and pythonbooks.org but I couldn't decide which one to get. I used to be fairly good

Re: Book recommendation? For getting up to date

2025-02-16 Thread Mats Wichmann via Python-list
On 2/16/25 05:50, Jan Erik Moström via Python-list wrote: I'm looking for a book that would teach me the lastest and greatest parts of Python, does anyone have any recommendations? I've looked at python.org and pythonbooks.org but I couldn't decide which one to get. I used to be fairly good a

Book recommendation? For getting up to date

2025-02-16 Thread Jan Erik Moström via Python-list
I'm looking for a book that would teach me the lastest and greatest parts of Python, does anyone have any recommendations? I've looked at python.org and pythonbooks.org but I couldn't decide which one to get. I used to be fairly good at Python, but I haven't done any serious programming in the