any author you find very good has written a book on Python?

TheSeeker duane.kaufman at gmail.com
Wed Sep 7 08:04:20 EDT 2022


On Monday, September 5, 2022 at 9:23:04 PM UTC-5, Meredith Montgomery wrote:
> I never read a book on Python. I'm looking for a good one now. I just 
> searched the web for names such as Charles Petzold, but it looks like he 
> never wrote a book on Python. I also searched for Peter Seibel, but he 
> also never did. I also tried to search for Richard Heathfield. (I took 
> a look at his ``C Unleashed'' once and I liked what I saw.) This is how 
> I search for books --- I go through the authors first. Charles Petzold, 
> for instance, anything he writes is worth reading it. (Have you given 
> his Annotated Turing a shot? It's a very nice read.) 
> 
> So that's my request --- any author you find very good has written a 
> book on Python? 
> 
> It could be for in a certain specific context. For instance, I also 
> searched for Hadley Wickham in the hope that he could have written a 
> data-science-type of book using Python. I like his writing a lot, but 
> he also only seems to have written only for the R language. 
> 
> Thank you!

Mike Driscoll (https://www.blog.pythonlibrary.org/about/) as written a number of books for different Python experience levels, which I have found useful.

-Duane Kaufman


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