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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

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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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  • This product had a total of 379 reviews as of our last analysis date on Apr 4 2024.

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    Posted by a reviewer on Amazon

    Recommend it your age serious about python


    Posted by a reviewer on Amazon

    Follows the 34design pattern34 for the other 34effective34 programming language book series


    Posted by a reviewer on Amazon

    Im new to python and this is the third book ive tried on learning the tricks


    Posted by a reviewer on Amazon

    This could be a reference book to quickly look for some patterns and recommend uses while programming with python


    Posted by a reviewer on Amazon

    It does not tell you algorithms but it does tell you what is the pythonic way to code


    Posted by a reviewer on Amazon

    Not a book for the python beginner but for those looking for great information which is to the point get this book


    Posted by a reviewer on Amazon

    One aspect i appreciated was how the author shows a naive implementation of a common solution


    Posted by a reviewer on Amazon

    This is often a solution most people would think of and these naive solutions looked correct at first glance

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