Intermediate to expert book

[Tony Houghton]

Can anyone recommend a good book for intermediate up to expert level?
I'm an experienced C programmer and I learnt Python from the "Learning
Python" O'Reilly book because it had good reviews. I was disappointed
though. It was difficult to read because it was so verbose. It would
sometimes take more than a page to explain something where all the
information I needed could have been conveyed in one sentence. If
anyone's seen Leendert Ammeraal's "C For Programmers", that's more the
sort of style I'm after. Something that covers 2.3 and preferably even
2.4 would be a bonus.

I've heard good things about "Dive Into Python". I see it can be
downloaded or read online, and on a very quick browse it seems to be
suitably to the point and cover some useful stuff that was missing from
or too deeply buried in Learning Python. I find it easier to read
printed material though, so I'd consider buying it. What sort of
opinions do people here have of it?

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