"definitive" source on advanced python?

[Russ Salsbury]

pruebauno at latinmail.com wrote:
> vdrab wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > Is there some sort of coherent source (dead tree format, maybe?) on
> > some of the more advanced features
> > of python (decorators, metaclasses, etc)? I'm sort of looking for a
>
> If you just want a good  book in feature description I recomend Python
> in a Nutshell. It will explain everything you ever did (or didn't) want
> to know without much fuzz. It will not have a long list of when you
> should use them. For the later the Python Cookbook is probably more
> appropiate. It is the book with the most amount and kind of advanced
> stuff IMHO. The printed version is much better than the online because
> it not only contains the examples but explains how they work. The
> problem is that the cookbook is organized by problem domain and not by
> implementation technique. To learn techniques you have to read it like
> the Bible: you read the stories and try to deduce what it tells you
> about Python.

The Python Cookbook is the word of God as told to the Prophet.

I can light a candle to that.

-- Russ