Starving for an Advanced Python Book

[Lee Joramo]

Besides 'Learning Python', I have the following books:

'Python Essential Reference'; David Beazley; New Riders
An excellent reworking of the online documentation. This is a reference
book with out tutorial, but I have learned much from it. HIGHLY  RECOMMENDED

'Python Annotated Archives'; Martin Brown; Osborne/McGraw Hill
Looking for lots of sample code, this book has it. Following the code of
each program is a detailed explanation of how the code works. I find this
type of book very useful. The authors commentary on the code provides
pointers that is often hard to get by reading code alone.

'Python Pocket Reference'; Mark Lutz; O'Reilly
75 pages, nice quick reference book. Only useful for looking up information
with which you are already generally familiar. If you like the small size,
get it. Otherwise, 'Python Essential Reference' will fill all your
reference needs.


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>Having finished "Learning Python", I'm now looking for an advanced
>Python text.  ORA's "Programming Python" is a natural choice, but I
>can't bear buying this outdated book when the 2nd edition is due out
>in a few months (I'm dying here Lutz, hurry it up already!).  However,
>I really need something in the interim period.  The library reference
>manual is fine but usage is difficult for me to figure out sometimes
>because there are very few examples included.
>
>Does anyone have any suggestions?  I suppose I'm looking for a text
>that has examples of how to solve various kinds of programming
>problems in Python and also examples of code showing how the library
>and various modules actually work.  How is the "Python Essential
>Reference" on examples?  Is it just a rebinding of the python.org
>library reference