If you have Python Cookbook, 3rd ed.

[Bischoop]

On 2021-05-19, Terry Reedy <tjreedy at udel.edu> wrote:
> can you verify that the Algorithm chapter (near end in 2nd ed.) does 
> *NOT* have an introduction by Tim Peters?
> (Info needed to verify timeit doc correction
> https://github.com/python/cpython/pull/21744)

Preface ...... xi
1.Data Structure adn Algorithms.........................................1
	1.1 Unpacking a Sequence into Separate Variables 		1
	1.2 Unpacking Elements from Iterables of Arbitrary Lenght	3
	1.2 Keeping the Last N items					5
	1.3 Finding the Largest or Smallest N itemst			7

Third Edition.