Best book on Python?

[Rodney Somerstein]

In all of the articles that I have seen discussing Python books I haven't 
seen anyone mention Python 2.1 Bible by Dave Brueck and Stephen Tanner. 
This largish book seems to offer a fairly comprehensive survey of Python.

While the book doesn't truly seem aimed at beginners, it does cover a 
pretty wide variety of topics including Tkinter, wxPython, curses, 
playing sounds, processing images, parsing XML, various Internet 
protocols, image processing, multi-threading, writing extension modules, 
embedding Python, NumPy, distributing/deploying applications and a lot 
more.

On the downside, the authors seem to ignore the existence of the 
Macintosh and all of their cross-platform discussions focus on Unix and 
Windows. Also, the cover of the book says that it "Includes a complete 
Python Language Reference." Other than the first few chapters which cover 
the core language fairly well, I don't see anything that resembles a 
language reference. It seems that there are other books which do this 
better.

Does anyone else have any opinions on this book?

-Rodney