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The author is such a professional programmer, the author teaches me a coding style that no other books can teach. Many programming books today function almost as language documentation. If you are a regular python user, this book is a must-have and sh... Read More
The book is divided into short sections (one section for each of the 59 tips) each section can be read in 10-30 minutes. The chapters have a good range in difficulty from easy to challenging. I'm new to python and this is the third book i've tried on ... Read More
A few sections substantiate the preferred approach with simple explanations of what python is doing under the hood. The author then shows where the naive solution fails, why it fails, and a way to do it better. Suggestions are easy to follow and easil... Read More
Python has many awesome syntactical constructions, that are not obvious for beginners and for experienced developers. The information provided is relevant to both python 2 & 3. It simply delivers useful knowledge that will be of immediate benefit ... Read More
Cons
Lots of primitive and dubious wisdom. None of the code downloads with the book.
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Quality
Knowledge of our tools and how to best use them helps us to build more stuff in less time, spend less time debugging and fixing... Read More
It’s a concise book of practical techniques to write maintainable, performant and robust code using practices widely accepted i... Read More
This thin book, 250 pages only, is split into 59 recipes, short and concise reviews of real life scenarios that every python de... Read More
In the style of scott meyer's "effective" series, the book is split into 59 sections (referred to as "items"), each covering an... Read More
Competitiveness
As a rubyist who now splits his time in the python world, i was looking for a resource to help get more of the pythonic idiom a... Read More
For example, item 2 is a recommendation to use pep 8 as a style guide.
Actually, it was what convinced me the time to upgrade to python3 would be worth investing for my codebase, for, among other th... Read More
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Recommend it your age serious about python
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Follows the 34design pattern34 for the other 34effective34 programming language book series
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Im new to python and this is the third book ive tried on learning the tricks
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This could be a reference book to quickly look for some patterns and recommend uses while programming with python
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It does not tell you algorithms but it does tell you what is the pythonic way to code
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Not a book for the python beginner but for those looking for great information which is to the point get this book
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One aspect i appreciated was how the author shows a naive implementation of a common solution
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This is often a solution most people would think of and these naive solutions looked correct at first glance
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